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    Newsletter Issue #785: The Night Owl’s Follow-up Report

    December 15th, 2014

    In recent months, I’ve written some preliminary reviews of several products. But due to the press of time and other events, I haven’t gotten around to actually playing catch-up. It’s time that I make up for some of that, which is the purpose of this article. Now several weeks ago, I received an iPad Air […]


    The iWatch: Making Up Form Factors

    July 16th, 2014

    While ongoing speculation about the iPhone has more or less centered on two sizes and the usual range of hardware enhancements, the talk about the rumored iWatch is still all over the map. When it comes to alleged iPhone 6, supply chain chatter has continued to leak into the wild, and some of it seems credible. As […]


    Do We Need Another Smartphone Platform?

    June 24th, 2014

    It has been rumored for several years, and last week, Amazon announced their first foray into the smartphone business. But unlike existing Kindle products, it is not being sold at or near cost. Instead the Fire Phone costs very much the same as the iPhone 5s and the Samsung Galaxy S4, which portends a decent profit. When […]


    About New Products and New Product Categories

    June 4th, 2014

    This week’s WWDC was all about the software. None of the rumored hardware announcements have occurred. There is no new iMac, there is no new MacBook Pro with Retina display, and forget about the iWatch. Yet Apple has done something extremely important for the future of the iOS and OS X, which is to provide the tools […]