I realize that Microsoft, despite being second to Apple in tech industry stock market cap, remains a behemoth to be reckoned with. But it’s also curious to see how the company arrived at that position despite remaining totally oblivious to pop culture, and what regular people want or expect. Perhaps Microsoft’s most successful marketing campaign […]

So the statistics that recently came out are telling. According to a report from Daniel Eran Dilger in AppleInsider, iPhone purchasers are more than twice as likely to want to buy another as those who bought Android-based devices. The article explains it all, so I’ll be brief. The iPhone and the iOS earned a 59% […]

There has been an ongoing meme among tech journalists (and even the mainstream media) over the years that Apple must fail unless it can be first in all markets served. This attitude is the result of the fact that Apple has been consigned to a small minority of the PC market. In the PC industry, […]

The other day, Sony’s stock price soared several percent amid clearly unconfirmed rumors that Apple would make a bid for a hostile takeover. This would be an ironic development, in light of the fact that Steve Jobs said some years back that he wanted Apple to be more like Sony, not to mention his high […]