As you’ve no doubt heard, the PC industry is in the doldrums these days, mostly with the exception of Apple of course. Sales are flat or declining, and more and more people have decided that they don’t need to replace that old computer after all. A smartphone, a tablet, or both, are perfectly suited to […]

While this article is written ahead of Microsoft’s investor conference call for their most recent financial quarter, they are confronting a wealth of problems that cast a huge shadow over the company’s future prospects. Yes, they will continue to earn high profits from the sale of software and sales, but the PC market has changed, […]

Although most of the attention on Apple in recent years has focused on Steve Jobs, Tim Cook, and product designer Sir Jonathan Ive, yet another executive has loomed as a star in Apple’s bullpen. These days, Scott Forstall, no stranger to Apple’s media events, works as a senior vice president in charge of the iOS. […]

When the iPhone 4s first arrived, the critics complained. Despite being “late” on arrival (even though there was no official release schedule), it didn’t look any different from the iPhone 4. Why bother? Of course, that didn’t stop customers from lining up to get one. Even now, there’s a backlog of several days at Apple’s […]