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    Fear and Loathing About Apple Watch Sales

    July 23rd, 2015

    To Wall Street, a 35% increase in iPhone sales over last year wasn’t enough to keep Apple’s stock from tanking. Selling 47.5 million seems impressive, but some Wall Street analysts said it must be 50 million. Of course you have to wonder where they got those figures, and if they were based on surveys, clearly there’s […]


    Apple Finances: Good is Never Good Enough

    July 22nd, 2015

    There’s something about inflated expectations, and it appears Apple just can’t win. If they beat those expectations, that should be a good thing, but if Wall Street decides it still wanted better numbers, as questionable as those estimates might be, well, that’s a bad thing. So Apple had another blowout quarter. Apple earned higher revenues and […]


    Newsletter Issue #816: Another Report about the Hit Bait Generation

    July 20th, 2015

    You probably recognize the tune. One big way for a site to attract traffic is to include Apple Inc. in the title, even if the article makes only a passing reference to the company. It doesn’t matter whether it comes from an individual blogger or a multinational publishing conglomerate. Unfortunately, it also doesn’t matter if […]


    Fear and Loathing about the Apple Watch

    March 17th, 2015

    Typical of the way some members of the media handle upcoming products from Apple, there has been a spate of stories saying Apple Watch is doomed to fail. To a large extent, none of the people writing these stories have even seen one in person. At best, they watched the online feed of Apple’s “Spring Forward” media […]