This story has lasted several news cycles, which itself is unusual. Between fretting over who the Republicans can rally behind to stop Donald Trump in that crazy Presidential campaign, there are back and forth discussions about Apple. The main issue: Whether Apple should be forced to create a backdoor that would allow the FBI to use brute […]

As usual with Apple, you’ll read mixed messages from so-called industry analysts on how they’re doing. Some will speak of continued growth, perhaps at a reduced level as markets saturate. Others will speak of no growth at all, or perhaps a contraction, particularly when it comes to iPhones. After all, how many more people are […]

If you cook a survey, and select or don’t select the participants in a certain way, you can produce any result you want. Even when the survey is accurate, there is often wiggle room about the conclusions. And that’s before you get to the margin of error. So a new theory that supposedly “benchmarks” the launch […]

At one time, a number of newspapers featured tech columnists. I was one of them for the Arizona Republic, before we were declared obsolete in the endless rush to reduce expenses. True, there are some tech writers who still labor away on their columns at local papers; more so on national papers such as USA Today. Some […]