Shorn of the silly excuses about hampering innovation by ISPs, ditching Net Neutrality is more about reducing regulations. But regulations quite often are responses to abuses, so the issue may never have come up if people didn’t find their Netflix signals constantly stuck in the “buffering” zone. The reason that was happening was because some […]

Over the years, there has been a growing list of companies that Apple should/must acquire to remain relevant. Or something. Apple, after all, has $268.9 billion hanging out in overseas accounts and investments. However, if all or most of that money were brought into this country, Apple would have had to pay an income tax of […]

With the news that Apple plans to spent a cool $1 billion to finance TV projects, the media is pretending that there is going to be some sort of “battle royal” among the various services to get your cord-cutting dollars. While that, in part, may be true, the facts are far more nuanced. It very […]

So the fourth-generation Apple TV arrived last fall with a fair amount of publicity from Apple. With a touchscreen and Siri support, not to mention an App Store, it seemed to answer many of the complaints of the previous model. But whether it will overhaul your TV watching experience is another question, and it’s hard […]