It’s fair to say that the market doesn’t give a new product much time before it’s declared a success or failure. Consider the Power Macintosh G4 Cube, for example, which was released in 2000. Reminiscent of the fabled NeXTcube, the Mac version didn’t survive a year until Steve Jobs — reluctantly I suspect — pulled […]

Please Note: We’re a little late today. Your long-suffering editor is recovering from surgery and things got, well, a little complicated Tuesday. But the situation is far more reasonable today. There was a time when publications had copy editors and technical editors to make sure that the material they published was as accurate as possible. […]

So I was writing an email to a friend about something or other on my iPhone 3GS. I needed to refer to some printed notes before completing the letter. So when I put down the phone, after a few moments the letter was sent without being finished and without any further intervention on my part. […]

Suppose I told you a few months ago that Apple would come out of the April through June quarter with the highest revenues ever for a non-holiday period. Would you believe me, or just assume that the worldwide recession would make it impossible even for Apple to deliver credible financial results? Certainly many financial analysts […]