It seems scarcely an issue of Consumer Reports appears that doesn’t cover personal computers and other electronics gear these days. In the wake of their strangely-concocted criticism of the iPhone 4’s antenna design, CR has gotten loads of favorable public attention — often not deserved. It’s unfortunate that virtually nobody in the mainstream media ever […]

It’s fair to say that the media and industry analysts just don’t get Apple. They keep wanting to pigeonhole the company into the same category as other tech giants, not understanding that they are dealing with a firm that doesn’t play by those rules. So, for example, you expect that as a company gets extremely […]

This article may come across as unduly jingoistic, and for that I apologize, at least somewhat. What’s more, what Apple is doing isn’t especially different from the rest of the tech industry, but Apple also has some of the highest profit margins around, other than Microsoft of course, so maybe there’s some wiggle room. Now […]

After all the speculation that Apple was consigning the Mac to the afterthought category, it’s fascinating to see how, in fact, the platform continues to survive and prosper. After one industry survey opted to merge iPad and Mac sales figures, Apple’s portable PC market share on that survey soared to number three behind Dell and […]