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    Welcome to the Silly Season: Has Apple’s Creativity Left?

    March 23rd, 2009

    More than two months after Steve Jobs took his extended hiatus to recover from his various health issues, some members of the tech media, clearly in desperate search for a story, are suggesting that Apple no longer has any creativity left. The illusion they present is that Steve Jobs was the one-man band who managed […]


    Apple Sales Confusion and Other Silliness

    April 5th, 2007

    Some refer to the summer as the silly season, particularly if there’s not a lot of important national or world news to cover, and offbeat human interest stories are given undue emphasis. However, the tech industry is no less immune to such ills, and it can happen any time of the year, particularly when there’s […]


    Newsletter #360 Preview: The Silly Season Revisited: Should Dell Take Over Mac Hardware?

    October 23rd, 2006

    It seems that almost anyone these days with the title “analyst” can go ahead and make a downright absurd claim and have it taken seriously. Take the Gartner Group, which is now suggesting that Apple should stop building Macs and hand off that assignment to Dell. I remember what that fellow named Forrest Gump said […]


    The Apple Hardware Report: Believe it or Not!

    September 26th, 2006

    It’s a little late for the silly season, and the unannounced vapor product of the year, the iPhone, is still missing in action. But that hasn’t stopped some people from suggesting that there is more than meets the eye to some of Apple’s potential plans in the foreseeable future. Now you just know that the […]