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    Apple’s Battle Against Software Mediocrity

    April 21st, 2010

    As you no doubt know, Apple continues to make it clear that Flash isn’t coming to their mobile platform in our lifetime. At the same time, Adobe and others are complaining about a change in the iPhone 4.0 SDK user license, which blocks apps translated from Flash or ported using developer tools that don’t conform […]


    Attention Apple Customers: Do You Feel Shackled?

    April 19th, 2010

    I read a headline today, referring to iPad owners as people who are somehow “shackled” to Apple’s hardware/software ecosystem. It conveyed the image of slaves sitting in the bowels of an ancient ship, chained to their seats and forced to manage the oars used to propel the vessel. Sometimes the stories I read about Apple […]


    Newsletter Issue #542: Gartner and IDC Need to Get their Figures Straight

    April 18th, 2010

    Without going into all of the boring specifics, depending on which set of estimates you believe, Apple is well positioned to grow the Mac platform or, perhaps, they can’t keep pace with the PC industry’s resurgence. But I will mention one set of numbers. According to Gartner, Apple sold 1.398 million Macs during the March […]


    Apple’s Naysayers Find Bad News in Everything

    April 14th, 2010

    So this week, we learned that Apple not only sold half a million iPads during the first week on sale, but that the overseas rollout is being delayed by a month because Apple can barely keep up with all that pent-up demand. That’s terrific news, and you can see that Apple’s stock price continues to […]