The headlines get wackier. Let me explain. Now the first wristwatches can be dated back to the 16th century, long before cars were invented. But from the very earliest days, motorists were driving while wearing their watches, and I’m sure they would manage a casual glance every so often. I wouldn’t know how many accidents have been […]

Hardly a day passes where a tech blogger — or so-called industry analyst — rants about how well Apple Watch will do when the sales figures are tallied, or whether it’ll be an abject failure. So far we’ve heard several estimates in the one million range for the first day of preorders. But you wonder […]

The launch weekend of a new product is usually big news for Apple. It didn’t always turn out that way, but when customers began to wait for days or weeks to buy a new product from Apple, it became a media event. Apple was only too happy to benefit from the hype. But the merest suggestion […]

Do you remember all that chatter before the iPhone 6 was launched last fall? Apple was having problems ramping up production, so they said, and supplies would be severely constrained when the units first went on sale. But you can go farther back over Apple’s history, particularly when a new form factor was about to […]