So we know that Apple’s numbers for the March quarter were, in large part, worse than so-called financial analysts predict. Apple’s stock price was down more than 6% as I wrote this column, and that’s to be expected. It’s an unfortunate fact that, even though Apple remains a highly profitable company, only a single quarter’s […]

It wasn’t terribly pleasant for Alphabet (Google) and Microsoft stockholders this past week. Both companies missed revenue targets, more or less, and thus suffered from lower stock prices. For Google, it’s pretty much the same old problem. Most of its revenue comes from one product, search, and, to a lesser extent, Google Play, Android’s app […]

If you believe what some financial and tech industry pundits are saying, Apple should have bought Tesla by now, maybe a wireless carrier, and, of late, Time Warner. Or maybe not the whole company, but the HBO premium cable service, assuming the company wants to unbundle. Indeed, the people who have no access to Apple’s […]

So it’s clear that Apple’s ongoing patent war with Samsung, though it has brought some victories, hasn’t actually accomplished anything except create legal bills and enrich the lawyers. The same Samsung gear is being sold, and the company has yet to pay anything to Apple despite being penalized to the tune $929 million as the result […]