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. […]

The other day, one commentator suggested that the early dream of Steve Jobs for Apple to control the PC industry was finally coming to pass in the years after his passing. It all began in 2010, with the release of the iPad to a highly skeptical audience. Now up until the iPad arrived, the prevailing […]

Just when I began to think that Apple’s stock price had begun to overcome the doldrums, they returned. The bad news, still unconfirmed, kept on coming, with one analyst even claiming, without evidence, that Apple’s sales had declined during the March quarter. If that were true, it would mean that Apple’s own guidance, which tends […]

Loyal Apple customers haven’t had an easy ride over the years. For those of you who started using Macs back in the 1980s, at times you wondered whether the company would be bought out and fade away, or just shut down. This was particularly true in the early 1990s, long after the enforced departure of […]