After the tragic earthquake and tsunami occurred in Japan, some tech analysts were suggesting that Apple might be in deep trouble building their trend-setting gadgets. Some of the parts, such as batteries, were all or partly sourced in Japan. The supply chain was disrupted, thus Apple couldn’t possibly meet customer demand. This resulted in a temporary […]

There is a story this week that Google is trying to, at long last, crack down on a very serious problem with the open source Android OS platform, and that’s fragmentation. Up till now, handset makers, and even those building would-be iPad killers, felt free to tear out parts of the OS and add their […]

On the surface, Apple is very similar to other high-tech companies. They build and sell hardware and software and, they hope and expect, make profits from them. That ought to be sufficient, and it is for most companies. But Apple, by word and deed, seems to have a far more expansive purpose. You can say, […]

There’s a story this week from CNN that purports to list the best laid plans by Apple’s competitors to surround and smother the iPad’s momentum. Corporate executives and industry analysts are quoted, and I’ll take the story as accurate, since the latest tablets from these companies confirms the story, and clearly betrays their total ignorance […]