It seems to be a nasty habit on the part of the tech media. A company announces a product or service that appears to compete with something Apple is building, and the immediate conclusion is that Apple is in big trouble and needs to so something pronto! This was particularly true in the early days […]

I feel vindicated once again. This past weekend, I questioned the veracity of a set of U.S.-based sales figures from IDC that painted a pretty mediocre picture for Mac sales in the past quarter. Supposedly they failed to keep up with the PC market as a whole. Of course, when Apple released the real numbers […]

From the developer’s standpoint, I suppose they have a point when they complain about the revisions in the iPhone 4.0 SDK agreement that evidently blocks use of third-party cross-platform compilers or Flash to build iPhone apps. Certainly it means they have more work to do if they want to develop software for different smartphones. On […]

Apple’s Thursday morning rollout of iPhone 4.0 was more about meeting expectations than necessarily beating them. For long months, the iPhone, the iPod touch — and now the iPad — have been severely criticized for the lack of certain features. Most prominent in this list is expanded multitasking, which had, up till now, only supported […]