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    The Why Apple Was Late Report

    September 23rd, 2014

    I’m sure a lot of you believe that the Apple II and the Mac were firsts in their categories, but they weren’t. Yes, it’s true there were personal computers with graphical user interfaces before the Mac debuted in 1984. An early version of a GUI debuted in 1973 on the Xerox Alto, developed at their PARC labs. The […]


    Newsletter Issue #773: It’s Not Just About Size

    September 22nd, 2014

    When Apple decided — some say relented — to produce two iPhones with larger display sizes, you can say the sucked the air out of the room when it came to the main reason to choose an Android smartphone. The argument was the fact that the iPhone was “stuck” at four inches, which some regard […]


    Apple Watch: Gadget or Fashion Statement

    September 12th, 2014

    The first logical question one considers when evaluating the Apple Watch is not Apple’s new naming convention, which gives up on the “i” prefix. After all, there is the Apple TV. The key question is: who is going to buy them? Therein lines the difficulty in predicting the potential for massive sales of the Apple Watch. You […]


    So is Apple in Disarray?

    September 5th, 2014

    The lurid headlines couldn’t be more explicit: Apple is in deep trouble, total disarray, just a week ahead of what might be their biggest new product launch in years. So what went wrong? Was it really about a problem that put Apple in a bad place? First, there was that report of an iCloud fix that […]