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    Is Apple Back From the Dead?

    August 12th, 2016

    I don’t know if this makes any sense, but for months, some members of the tech media and financial pundits have been pretty much calling Apple nearly dead and buried. Any time now, and the recent drop in iPhone sales — and similar results for the Mac platform — clearly indicate the company is in trouble. […]


    Apple and Bone-Headed Decisions

    June 23rd, 2015

    So the meme playing out in the news media is that Apple, the $700 billion gorilla, was rapidly beaten down by a 25-year-old woman. Well, a woman who just happens to be a multimillionaire rock star and one of the most popular recording artists of the day. But still. All it took was one blog […]


    Another Apple “Gate”?

    September 25th, 2014

    Every year or so, Apple gets embroiled in some sort of scandal over a new product or service. In 2010, the iPhone 4 arrived with high sales. But some people reported reception problems if you held it in a way that covered the external antenna joints at the bottom edges of the device. The symptom was […]


    Apple Maps: 18 Months Later

    March 14th, 2014

    The common theme is that Apple messed up big time when switching to a home-brewed mapping system for iOS 6. It got so bad that Apple even fired a long-time executive, Scott Forstall, although there may have been other reasons that hastened his departure. No matter. It was quite true that, during the early days, […]