Consider the disconnect. Apple’s market cap is way ahead of Microsoft’s, putting the company second only to Exxon. As I write this, Apple’s stock continues to rise ahead of the rest of Wall Street, meaning that, at long last, the financial community has a lot of confidence in the company. At the same time, the […]

It comes as no surprise that, when the head of a computer company has been portrayed in a movie or TV show, he’s apt to resemble Bill Gates, a nerdy caricature with the tousled hair who engages in evil behavior on a computer to cause havoc. I rather suspect that, when the U.S. Department of […]

According to Apple, in less than 60 days some two million iPads were sold. This is ahead of most early estimates that pegged sales for the entire first year at five or six million. What makes the figures more compelling is the fact that Apple remains seriously backordered, and the product is only beginning to […]

It seems to be a nasty habit on the part of the tech media. A company announces a product or service that appears to compete with something Apple is building, and the immediate conclusion is that Apple is in big trouble and needs to so something pronto! This was particularly true in the early days […]