Apple’s decision to release iWork free with the purchase of a new Mac, iPhone or iPad surely had its impact on Microsoft. After existing in the world of rumors for several years, Office for iPad was finally released last week. It’s just the basic three: Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Microsoft made no effort to provide […]

On October 22, Apple released OS X Mavericks as a free download. In the previous months, I’ve suggested that such a thing might happen, although Apple went even further by making iWork and iLife more or less free too. I mean “more or less” because you have to buy a new Mac, or be using a […]

So we have that unfortunate situation where Google bought Motorola Mobility for the princely sum of $12.5 billion in 2011. It has essentially gone nowhere in terms of restoring a fading handset division to profitability. Besides, the most popular Android smartphones are built by Samsung, which, as the unkindest cut of all, barely mentions Android […]

The latest rumor of a possible market disruption about Apple is all about a…wrist watch? As crazy as it may seem, it’s not as if the world of fiction hasn’t described a precedent for such a gadget? Or the world of comics, such as the famous wrist radio used by detective Dick Tracy, or even […]