It wasn’t so many years ago that Apple’s Mac market share was a mere blip compared to the Windows PC. Some suggested it was mostly noise, and very little signal, but that’s also when the tech pundit of the week suggested Apple was dying any day now. For the past 19 quarters, Apple’s sales growth […]

Over the years, Apple has been urged time and time again by customers and media analysts to build cheaper gear. When they respond at all, the answer is usually the same. Apple won’t build junk, and they cannot find a way to cheapen Macs, for example, without sacrificing quality and features. At the same time, […]

You may not know this, but there is a major mobile phone industry event in progress this week, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. That’s where the movers and shakers in that business are busy showing off their new products and services. That is, except for one company who has managed to upstage yet another […]

So let’s see now. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is the former head of Microsoft’s Business Division, a position he held until September of last year. In passing, he was also CEO of Macromedia before Adobe acquired the company. In a recent revealing memo, Elop admitted that Nokia’s mobile platform is collapsing around them. True, Nokia […]