So the first reviews are in for the iPad mini and the fourth generation iPad. It’s pretty clear where the tech media stands, but how will customers react? Will Apple be able to keep up the sales momentum in the face of increased competition from the Google Android platform and the arrival of the Microsoft […]

When outrageous businessman/personality Donald Trump finds someone unacceptable on his reality TV show, he gloats and announces with utter sarcasm, “You’re fired!” It is clear that Tim Cook, in putting his stamp on his tenure as CEO of Apple, has evidently taken that phrase to heart. Well, perhaps partly. In an unexpected move on Tuesday, it […]

There has been so much speculation about what Apple would announce during the WWDC keynote that I hesitated to take much of it seriously. But I will focus on the reality and some of the key fictions, and maybe a few just-misses. But the opening, with Siri doing the intros, was certainly in keeping with […]

Although most of the attention on Apple in recent years has focused on Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and product designer Sir Jonathan Ive, yet another executive has loomed as a star in Apple’s bullpen. These days, Scott Forstall, no stranger to Apple’s media events, works as a senior vice president in charge of the iOS. […]