It’s hard to know whether it was all prearranged, or whether Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, the hosts of this week’s AllThingsDigital conference, make a habit of asking softball questions of prestigious guests, but there were no attempts to pin down Steve Jobs on the critical questions. Call the performance closer to a Larry King […]

It seems to be a nasty habit on the part of the tech media. A company announces a product or service that appears to compete with something Apple is building, and the immediate conclusion is that Apple is in big trouble and needs to so something pronto! This was particularly true in the early days […]

I’ve said it a number of times that I do not expect Apple to get into the large screen TV business. There are a number of sensible reasons for this, one of which is the fact that this is a heavily-saturared market with companies already rushing to exit the business. Now I suppose some of […]

You didn’t hear anything about it at Macworld Expo, at least from the mouths of Philip Schiller or any other Apple employee. During last week’s session with financial analysts, Apple’s executives weren’t even asked the question, and they felt no need to volunteer a response. Indeed, the rest of the world is nevertheless observing the […]