They talk about art imitating life, but more often than not, there’s only a slight resemblance of the former to the latter. Take a recent episode of a police detective procedural, the rebooted “Hawaii 5-0,” which had a plot device that might present concerns about the Touch ID fingerprint sensor on an iPhone. Before I go […]

When Apple schedules a media event, there’s a teaser, a phrase or two to convey possible hints and drive speculation as to what’s to come. But what does Apple mean by, “It’s been way too long”? Too long for what? Predictably, especially tech writers who cover Apple, are wondering about the products that haven’t been […]

As I write this piece, online stats show that iOS 8 is closing in on an adoption rate of 50%, moving ahead of iOS 7 for the first time. That number sounds impressive, and it would be except for the fact that migration from iOS 6 to iOS 7 was far higher at this point in […]

So there a big story this week about a certain survey that appears, on the surface, to indicate that teens aren’t especially interested in buying an Apple Watch. The results are based on a twice-yearly survey conducted by Piper Jaffray, a respected industry analyst company. The report comes from Gene Munster, known to like his Macs, […]