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    Will the Critics Admit They Got Apple Wrong? No Way!

    September 24th, 2013

    Let’s take a brief journey back through time. In 2012, amid predictions that Apple would sell up to ten million copies of the iPhone 5, they announced that a “mere” five million were sold. Now in passing, it should be pointed out that Apple never made any presales predictions, but they did state that they […]


    So Much for Falling iPhone Sales

    July 25th, 2013

    Ever since the iPhone 5 was released to record sales in September 2012, media and financial pundits have declared it a failure. When they estimated that Apple could sell 10 million units the first weekend, and Apple sold a record five million, that was a miss. Whose miss? Well, the silly estimates from some analysts […]


    So Apple Is Working On A — What?

    July 23rd, 2013

    There’s a published report this week indicating that Apple may want to go large with the iPhone and iPad. There’s talk of prototypes of the former with a 4.94-inch screen, close enough to five inches to be identical to the Samsung Galaxy S4. As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the iPad prototype has a […]


    Newsletter Issue #706: What I Don’t Expect to See at the WWDC

    June 10th, 2013

    I don’t mind taking a minor risk from time to time. Several times a week, I post a commentary that I believe at least a few people want to read, and I’ve done so since 1999. I’ve attended a number of Apple keynotes at the WWDC, the Macworld Expo, during the years in which Apple […]