Almost from the first day the iPhone debuted on AT&T’s network in the U.S., some of the critics were busy complaining loudly that Apple should have selected Verizon Wireless instead. It was all so simple. Just pick and choose the carrier you want, and that’s all it took. Unfortunately, the real world didn’t work that […]

It’s part of the human condition to tell stories and, often as not, to embellish the ones you hear in the retelling. Sometimes you wonder how information conveyed orally passes on through generations supposedly without loads of changes. So here’s a little story: Years ago, the late comedian Steve Allen would occasionally conduct an informal […]

So I read a story this week from columnist Daniel Eran Dilger, writing in AppleInsider, entitled “Samsung to Rival Apple’s iPod touch with Android Galaxy Player,” and I wondered, all over again: Just what are these companies thinking? Do they not understand the difference between innovation and copying? Certainly, a company as successful as South […]

The search to discover secrets about Apple’s latest and greatest gadgets has reached a fever pitch. You almost think some people are examining the trash bins in the vicinity of the Apple campus in Cupertino, CA for telltale evidence of what they’re working on. Of course, physical documents would be shredded as a matter of […]