In the wake of what seemed to be significant announcements from Apple, it’s clear Wall Street wasn’t super impressed, but does anyone take the financial community seriously anymore after the recent economic debacle? And don’t get me started on some members of the tech media. Take an article I read the other day that suggested […]

As Amazon reportedly prepares to release a grown-up version of its Kindle book reader to handle magazines and newspapers, you have to wonder just how Apple might enter this arena. Consider there’s already a version of Amazon’s e-book software available on the iPhone, although we’re talking about a screen size that’s not particularly suitable for […]

Several years ago, during one of their quarterly conference calls with financial analysts, Apple again dismissed the possibility that they’d ever build a cheap Mac. The reason, often stated, is that they didn’t want to build a crappy Mac. Well, it is true that, in the 1990s when Apple couldn’t do anything right (more or […]

When Apple first delivered its low-key introduction to Mac OS 10.6 last year, they said it would be out in “about a year.” Nothing has changed since then, although speculation about Snow Leopard’s possible release date ebbs and flows on a fairly regular basis, no doubt when there’s not a lot of Apple Inc. news […]