When my brother-in-law died in 2014, his widow asked me to sell his wristwatch, a well-worn Rolex knockoff. I took it to a couple of jewelry shops that promised to buy old stuff at decent prices, and it was summarily rejected. It wasn’t just a knockoff, but a bad one at that, it was badly […]

So there’s a published report that pegs Apple Watch sales at seven million for the first six months. The new numbers, from Canalys, are a bit shy of other figures that estimate sales at eight million. They are all looking at the increases in Apple’s “Other” category in its quarterly financials to guess how much Apple Watch sales […]

Some potential Apple products are thought of as inevitable. Despite the lack of evidence of an Apple TV set, you may feel it will arrive one of these days simply because Steve Jobs developed some sort of amazing user interface that would, I suppose, revolutionize the living room. But remember that he didn’t actually say […]