When you examine Apple’s financials in even a cursory fashion, you have to consider that, not so long ago, it took almost a year for them to earn $6.22 billion of revenue. Now Apple can do this in a single quarter, and nobody can guess just where this might end up in the next few […]

When Apple decided to drop the price tag of the iPhone by $200, a lot of people wondered what Steve Jobs was “smoking.” After all, if a product is truly successful, you’d expect them to milk the profits from their new gadget for as long as possible before chasing after maximum volume. But Apple is […]

One of the most famous statements in American filmdom came from Jack Nicholson, playing a corrupt general in Rob Reiner’s “A Few Good Men.” In one of the classic scene-chewing segments of that film, he announced to an angered Tom Cruise, portraying a JAG attorney, “You can’t handle the truth!” Indeed, I often think that […]

Nowadays, it seems you can’t give detailed and intelligent answers anymore to the media. Instead, they lust after the pithy 15-second or 30-second sound bite, so it can be inserted between a wraparound report. And it’s not just any old statement, but something you can remember and repeat until the rest of time, even if […]