There’s a quiet branding change in Apple’s promotion of Lion. While the press releases and even the new About This Mac window still refer to 10.7 as Mac OS X, Apple begun to move towards the OS X label instead; yes, without the word Mac. Compare that to the way the iPhone OS became iOS […]

Zooming way, way past Wall Street estimates, at least for the most part, Apple announced Wendesday that its third-quarter profits soared nearly 125% over the same quarter last year, to $7.31 billon, or $7.79 per diluted share. Total sales through June 25, 2011 reached $28.57 billion. As I said, way, way ahead of Wall Street […]

So you know that the Google Android OS is doing quite well as a smartphone OS, but not so well when powering tablets. Well, amend that. You see there are now published reports that developers have begun to pay less attention to Android and more attention to the iOS. Most likely, it’s due to the […]

In the roll-up to the announcement of the iPad 2 earlier this year, tech pundits were rushing to be first with speculation as to what might change. A lighter, slimmer form factor seemed a given, not to mention a more powerful CPU. But then it became hazy, with some floating the possibility of a higher […]