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    Apple Has to Pay Up in E-book Antitrust Case

    March 8th, 2016

    So it’s over. Apple’s attempts to appeal a $450 million court judgment for antitrust behavior got turned back by the U.S. Supreme Court. By refusing to consider findings that Apple, along with several publishers, were engaged in a scheme to fix e-book prices, thus resulting in higher prices to customers, it let the lower court ruling […]


    Newsletter Issue #849: More Spec Stupidity

    March 7th, 2016

    So I read an article in a business publication that made some strong pronouncements about the performance of a product that the blogger never actually tested. This is the sort of behavior that I see quite often, and it goes to show utter desperation in trying to make it seem as if one product is […]


    The Latest Effort to Declare an iPhone 5se a Failure

    March 3rd, 2016

    A familiar scenario is being played out. A rumored Apple product is being declared a failure even before it has been announced, let alone shipping to dealers and customers. It’s about the alleged iPhone 5se, which would allegedly put most of the guts of an iPhone 6s unto what appears to be the body of an […]


    Apple and Niche Products

    March 2nd, 2016

    Take a look at Apple these days. One billion device activations, hundreds of millions of users for individual products. This is mass market to the nth degree, yet it wasn’t so many years ago that the company was regarded as a maker of niche computers. The relatively lower volume products, such as Macs and even today’s Apple […]