For reasons that have little to do with what Apple is actually doing, they’ve managed to dominate the headlines in recent days, mostly because of that brouhaha over that loss and eventual recovery of a prototype of the next generation iPhone. But that, of course, has little to do with Apple’s existing products and services. […]

I feel vindicated once again. This past weekend, I questioned the veracity of a set of U.S.-based sales figures from IDC that painted a pretty mediocre picture for Mac sales in the past quarter. Supposedly they failed to keep up with the PC market as a whole. Of course, when Apple released the real numbers […]

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 […]

From the developer’s standpoint, I suppose they have a point when they complain about the revisions in the iPhone 4.0 SDK agreement that evidently blocks use of third-party cross-platform compilers or Flash to build iPhone apps. Certainly it means they have more work to do if they want to develop software for different smartphones. On […]