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    Should Android Users Hide their Smartphones?

    January 27th, 2015

    I know there’s a tendency on the part of some online pundits to deliberately put Apple in the headline as hit bait. It’s not my intention to do the same thing with an Android slant. Aside from the obvious factual accuracy of this column, I just don’t play the hit bait game. I’d like to believe […]


    Newsletter Issue #788: Apple’s 2014 Sales: Has Apple TV Returned to Hobby Status?

    January 5th, 2015

    If early indications hold true, the iPhone did extremely well during the recently-ended holiday season. While actual sales won’t be known till Apple releases the quarterly numbers, it’s very likely there was a fairly substantial increase. Apple clearly did the right thing in deciding to build larger iPhones. The real question is whether the legacy […]


    Dumb and Dumber Surveys

    October 9th, 2014

    So there a big story this week about a certain survey that appears, on the surface, to indicate that teens aren’t especially interested in buying an Apple Watch. The results are based on a twice-yearly survey conducted by Piper Jaffray, a respected industry analyst company. The report comes from Gene Munster, known to like his Macs, […]


    The Microsoft Death Watch: More Surface Silliness

    August 12th, 2014

    As Microsoft prepares to shed 18,000 employees, you’d think the company’s marketing team would be working overtime to boost income and shore up weaker products. Instead, it doesn’t appear that any lessons have been learned from the ongoing failure of the Surface. Now in a previous round of Surface ads, Microsoft touted the ability to run […]