For a once-beleaguered company, the amount of attention that will be focused on Apple’s quarterly financials next week will likely come close to matching that for a statement about health care or national security from the president. That may seem surprising, but it’s true. Nearly everything that happens with Apple these days is fodder for […]

Although I remain skeptical how it’ll all turn out, the top executives at Microsoft must be freaking upon learning that Google plans to build the Chrome operating system. Worse, that it’ll be deployed first for netbooks and eventually to regular note-books and desktop computers as well. Most of the online chatter doesn’t really mention Apple […]

My first report on the iPhone 3GS presented the tale of a botched ordering process when AT&T got involved for a pre-shipping verification. However, the phone itself has worked great since Day One, without any activation delays or other untoward behavior to report. Certainly, a sequel is called for, although I can’t say that I’ve […]

They never learn. Media pundits have this “bigger they are, harder they fall” philosophy when it comes to one of Apple’s hot-selling gadgets. So in the days when the iPhone was growing tremendously every single year, almost every pretender to the throne was touted as the one and only inevitable iPod killer. This was particularly true […]