Apple did reasonably well in 2015, earning record profits and expanding from two OS platforms to four with the Apple Watch and Apple TV. That it all seems to work as well as it does, more or less, may seem a miracle to some. How many tech companies manage a similar effort successfully? Well, Google […]

During his appearance this past weekend on The Tech Night Owl LIVE, commentator Peter Cohen suggested that Apple’s Jonathan Ive has a “thin fetish.” He didn’t make that statement to be provocative, but to suggest that Ive had taken some wrong turns in design in the interests of style over substance. So it makes sense […]

When you look at an OS adoption rate, the number is not necessarily proof of quality, but of popularity. Or people buying gear with the new OS, thus accepting it by default. Well, except for Windows, where you may be able to downgrade to an older version. That happened quite often after Windows 8 and 8.1 […]

It almost seemed as if Apple went with the crowd when the iPhone grew up. So with the 4.7-inch iPhone 6s and the 5.5-inch iPhone 6s Plus, and their predecessors last year, it was abundantly clear that Apple was answering the most significant competitive threat head-on. Samsung had made hay of building big smartphones, particularly the ones […]