Apple doesn’t get a break. Ahead of the announcement of the new iPhones and, perhaps, a new Apple TV and some other gear, the company’s success is once again said to be on the line. Or at least that’s what some want you to believe. Now the arguments against the iPhone refresh mostly go this […]

Once upon a time, when Apple was installing rofowerPC chips in Macs, there came a time when Intel appeared to be soaring ahead in the CPU horsepower race. Do you remember when Pentiums began to approach 4 GHz, while the PowerPC G5 topped out at 2.5 GHz, and that required liquid cooling? So, in theory, the Pentium must have been […]

If you can believe what some industry analysts have been saying, Apple should now be playing third fiddle in the smartphone wars. Android and Windows Phone would be ahead of iOS. Apple would, I suppose, be destined to fall back into niche status. Have you looked at the Windows Phone and BlackBerry market shares lately? […]

Global stocks are in freewill, in very large part over fears about economic slowdowns in China. Since Apple has become more and more dependent on China for sales growth, its stock has been in “bear” territory for days, losing a large portion of its recent gains. Some expect the stock to just keep falling because, […]