Let’s take the infamous Apple Tax argument only so far and no farther. Comparably equipped Macs and PCs cost pretty much alike. There’s no sense in discussing configurations Apple doesn’t offer, could offer, should offer or anything else. It’s all about A versus A, not A versus Z or some other combination. However, once you’ve […]

All right, so the latest craziness to emerge from some elements of the text press suggests that in a post-Jobs Apple, the company would somehow find “synergies” with Google and would contemplate a merger. You can take that to the bank, they feel, but I think it would have to be a bank that’s failing. […]

So I’m reading a story suggesting that, with dipping iPod sales, Apple needs to get a new digital music product going pronto. Evidently they are forgetting that the replacement products in question — the iPhone and iPod touch — are already in the hands of tens of millions of people around the world. And that […]

The movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley” comes across as somewhat of a fanciful interpretation of the early friendship between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates that became the ultimate industrial rivalry. Those who prefer folklore would find similar epic tales, involving historical figures who became acquainted, struck up fast friendships, but eventually became bitter enemies for […]