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    The Microsoft Death Spiral Continues

    May 6th, 2011

    You could see it this past quarter, when Apple, for the first time, posted higher profits than Microsoft; total sales were already ahead. I could almost imagine Steve Jobs and his crew applauding and cheering when Microsoft’s financials were originally announced. It was a long time coming. Apple’s ascendency was most obvious last year when […]


    Newsletter Issue #581: How Apple Killed the CES

    January 17th, 2011

    As you know, Apple Inc. has never made its presence known at the Consumer Electronics Show, which took place, as usual this year, in Las Vegas the first week of this month. So if you could take yourself away from the gambling tables for a few hours, you’d get to see some of the latest […]


    A Look at Crazy or Incompetent Corporate Executives

    December 9th, 2010

    There are no doubt some people in our audience who feel that Steve Jobs is a little loose in the head, maybe not the sanest person on the planet, but is a positively brilliant visionary and businessperson. After all, who else in the tech industry, even Bill Gates, could have taken Apple in 1997, ruthlessly […]


    Apple Ditches Technologies Right and Left

    November 5th, 2010

    Just the other day, the pundits started ranting about yet another technology that Apple is evidently discarding. This comes as the result of the decision to deprecate Java — in other words stop development — as of the release of Mac OS X Lion next year. Now Java is a cross-platform development tool that’s quite […]