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    Those Wacky Responses to the iPhone 5

    September 19th, 2012

    Implicit in some of the criticisms of the iPhone 5 is the realization that it will be a smashing success. Apple’s success certainly is bad news for the competition, but it’s also true that some media pundits feel that Apple is somehow fooling people to buy their products. Once they come to their senses, the […]


    Playing the Great Spec Game

    September 18th, 2012

    Predictably, Samsung has begun to run a series of ads countering the iPhone 5 onslaught. But Samsung appears to be falling into a serious trap, believing that having better specs, or more of them, is sufficient to get a leg up on Apple. Now there’s nothing wrong with healthy competition. It would be foolish to […]


    Newsletter Issue #668: Apple Derangement Syndrome is in Full Force

    September 17th, 2012

    With the iPhone 5, Apple fulfilled most of the hopes and dreams of fans of the company by most any standard. It is at the same time larger, lighter and thinner, and that’s the sort of contradiction that required careful attention to the design details to achieve. It is also predictably faster, and has most […]


    Do We Expect Too Much of the iPhone 5?

    September 14th, 2012

    If you just look at the changes and improvements in the new iPhone, it’s fair to conclude that Apple did a lot of work to make things a lot better. And that’s before you consider the elaborate construction processes and the usual high level of fit and finish. All told, it’s faster, looks better, has […]