All right, depending on whom you believe, Apple’s sales were down last quarter. Or maybe they were flat, or perhaps there was a minor uptick, particularly in recent weeks. Obviously, Microsoft would rather have you believe that PC sales are on the upswing again and Apple’s days in the sun have come to an end. […]

More than two months after Steve Jobs took his extended hiatus to recover from his various health issues, some members of the tech media, clearly in desperate search for a story, are suggesting that Apple no longer has any creativity left. The illusion they present is that Steve Jobs was the one-man band who managed […]

I suspect some of you don’t always get Apple’s method of innovation. It doesn’t necessarily mean they were first with everything they’ve done. I am sure, for example, that you will locate prior attempts at graphical user interfaces before the Lisa and later the Mac arrived. Only Apple (and Microsoft) managed to survive, while many […]

At the beginning of the year, as thousands of Mac users prepared to endure a Macworld Expo keynote with substitute host Phil Schiller, there was plenty of speculation about what new products might be offered. Alas, most of that speculation came for naught, because the product introductions were few and seemed far from satisfying. The […]