You’d think what with tens of thousands of talented designers and engineers working for all the major tech companies, including Google and Samsung, that Apple would be only one of many when it comes to real innovation. It would be difficult to believe that no other company has the creativity to make a dent in […]

So you’ve heard nearly the same chatter from a number of sources about what Apple might do in 2014. Certainly Tim Cook has made some big promises, about great products and some new product categories. That ought to be quite sufficient to fuel the speculation, and there has been plenty of that. But even the […]

Predictably, financial and media pundits are busy churning out pieces speculating about what you can expect from Apple Inc. in 2014. Predictably, some of those articles make long-disproven assumptions about the company’s history, and use that incorrect information to make questionable predictions. So there is one article, from a large tech blog (which does not […]

Except for the iPhone, the argument in favor of other smartphones is heavily spec-based. You almost think that companies sit in a meeting room, bring up their PowerPoint presentations, and add as many things to the spec lists as possible to validate a product’s superiority. The more bullet points, the better. What happens next? Well, […]