When Apple first announced that iPhone sales had dipped in the March quarter, you can bet that the critics were salivating. After predicting doom and gloom for the company for so many years, maybe they weren’t crying wolf after all. Maybe the iPhone would lose sales big time, and become a niche product in the marketplace. […]

According to Apple’s financial guidance for the current quarter, sales will rise somewhat. This is a change from previous quarters this calendar year where sales were lower, mostly because of reduced demand for iPhones. Forgetting the reason, there may be legitimate criticisms that Apple didn’t release enough new gear this year, and perhaps that explains lower demand […]

When Walt Disney died at the “tender age” of 65 in 1966, the executives who took over his company were in a quandary. What to do next? What would Walt have done anyway? But the quest to look back also hurt the company’s direction for years. Critical decisions weren’t made, at least until they realized […]

A common theme about Apple is that the critics demand that features from other platforms be copied. You can find a list; it’s easy, because Apple never attempts to compete on the quantity of features but, mostly, on the quality of features. So the iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone, obviously. Before it arrived, you had […]