So here’s the conventional wisdom (such as it is): Apple is a consumer-oriented tech company. When it comes to the enterprise, IT people look for Windows on a personal computer, and a BlackBerry when it comes to smartphones. Despite earning record profits and sales almost every quarter, the critics still aren’t satisfied. How could they […]

One thing some of the nasty negativists in the tech media fail to realize is that new products aren’t necessarily one-offs. What that means is that, if this year’s version doesn’t have all the features you want, maybe next year’s will. The first iPad, for example, shipped without a camera. I don’t pretend to know […]

In the latest issue of our weekly newsletter, I brought up an article from Washington Post tech columnist that pretty much sums up the serious shortcomings of the Android OS. You see, open doesn’t always translate to something that’s actually good. Think about the issue of interface consistency. With Mac OS X and Windows, you […]

As regular readers know, the first of an expected large group of tablet-based gadgets are beginning to go on sale. These are the supposed iPad killers that will, some suggest, seriously erode Apple’s market share in the tablet market. That assumes, of course, that any of these products are actually any good and properly marketed, […]