On January 31st, Apple will reveal earnings for the December 2016 quarter, amid expectations for record sales. Why are expectations high? Well, because Apple’s own quarterly guidance, which tends to be conservative, pointed in that direction, with revenue expected between $76 billion and $78 billion. If Apple meets those expectations, it should be sufficient even […]

We’re just days away from getting the hard numbers from Apple on December 2016 quarterly sales. From Apple’s guidance, which tends to be quite conservative, the company stands to show a slight increase over the previous year. This would represent a welcome change from last year, where the first-ever sales drop for an iPhone occurred. […]

If you can believe recent sales estimates from Gartner, Mac sales over the past year fell about twice as much as the average for PC sales. This may be particularly disconcerting, since Apple has long claimed that the rate of growth of the Mac has exceeded the overall PC market. That was mostly true until the […]

Since people are in the habit of blaming Steve Jobs for everything, even though he’s no longer around, I suppose some might hold him responsible for harming the way in which you listen to music. How so? Well, therein lies a tale. So consider the fact that, when the first iPod arrived in 2001, you could […]