Just the other night, while watching the DVR playback of a TV show, I had to fast forward through several iPad ads. It seemed almost every other station break had an iPad announcement, the very same one! You just know Apple was sending a message, and not just to potential customers. Now running the same […]

All right, so Apple has certainly dominated the headlines in recent months with the iPhone 4, the unfortunate Antennagate scandal, a new iPod lineup and a resurrected Apple TV that hopes to shed its hobby status. That pretty much takes care of everything, except for a certain product category that doesn’t get much press these […]

The skeptics say that Apple Inc. has a lot of nerve, pushing out new products with the claims that they are game-changers, magical, insanely great and all that jazz. Certainly no company can hit a home run every single time, and, besides, there are competitors lining up to eat Apple’s lunch, including the dessert. Contrast […]

You know you can buy a netbook running Windows for less than $300, but the very cheapest Mac, the mini, is now $699. You also know that you can get a smartphone with the Google Android OS on it for next to nothing, but the cheapest iPhone is last year’s 3GS, at $99 with a […]