It appears to be a common theme these days that Apple is in a huge pickle if a few markets aren’t overturned on a monthly basis. It doesn’t matter that six years passed between the introduction of the iPod and the iPhone, and another three before the iPad came to be. Resting on one’s laurels […]

All right, we all know the score: Google’s Android mobile platform is dominant worldwide. Apple is in second place, but the critics say this is just a replay of the old Mac versus Windows wars. As more and more commodity handsets powered by Android are sold, Apple will be consigned to their traditional niche status. […]

So there’s a report this week that Apple’s main Asian manufacturing partner, Foxconn, is now on a hiring spree, supposedly to get ready to start building the alleged iPhone 5s. This comes not long after another published report appeared saying that Foxconn had cut staffing because of poor iPhone sales. I know that if I […]

Back in the 1990s, no less than Steve Jobs said that the operating system wars were over. The victor: Microsoft, although that didn’t stop the Mac from growing and prospering over the years. However, I wonder if many of you ever thought there’d come a time when Microsoft was itself facing an era of irrelevance. […]