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    Does Apple Prefer Fair Weather Friends?

    January 29th, 2009

    You know that Apple clearly has no interest in honoring the 25th anniversary of the Mac. The event wasn’t mentioned during Philip Schiller’s keynote at Macworld Expo, nor in the recent quarterly financial conference with industry analysts. The latest ads don’t harken back to the original 1984 commercial that attracted so much attention at the […]


    Newsletter #478 Preview: Taking the Mac Seriously After 25 Years

    January 25th, 2009

    You didn’t hear anything about it at Macworld Expo, at least from the mouths of Philip Schiller or any other Apple employee. During last week’s session with financial analysts, Apple’s executives weren’t even asked the question, and they felt no need to volunteer a response. Indeed, the rest of the world is nevertheless observing the […]


    Apple Confounds the Skeptics All Over Again

    January 21st, 2009

    All right, just yesterday I was suggesting that Apple would record good sales for Macs and the iPhone, and, based on a preliminary survey, suggested iPod sales might decline slightly. But, as usual, Apple made the industry analysts and Wall Street money people look foolish. In the final quarter of 2008, which is actually the […]


    Is Apple Forgetting History?

    January 8th, 2009

    I think many of the people went to San Francisco to listen to Philip Schiller’s keynote at the Macworld Expo expected him to say something in observance of the fact that the Mac’s 25th anniversary is coming later this month. Who can forget, for example, that famous 1984 commercial, directed by none other than Ridley […]