Almost since the first Mac, an all-in-one personal computer, appeared in 1984, the critics and competitors were fervently wishing Apple would just go away. It’s fair to say that bad marketing decisions, and a procession of mediocre CEOs that were clueless about advancing the platform, almost made those wishes come true. By the time 1996 arrived, […]

You just know that there will be a new version of the iPad this year, and barring some unforeseen corporate disaster at Apple, that expectation will come true. The same can be said about an iPhone 5, although how each of these products will be actually labeled is open to question. Beyond those simple certainties, […]

There’s an unfortunate feeling in some parts of the media that Steve Jobs is the beginning and the end of Apple. If he’s away, even temporarily, the company simply cannot grow at record levels, and is doomed to return to that beleaguered status it occupied for so many years. That in large part explains why […]

As you know, Apple Inc. has never made its presence known at the Consumer Electronics Show, which took place, as usual this year, in Las Vegas the first week of this month. So if you could take yourself away from the gambling tables for a few hours, you’d get to see some of the latest […]