Certainly, Apple’s upcoming iPhone media event has been telegraphed in the media for a while. When the rumors first arose, well-connected bloggers, such as The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple, were quick to say it was true. But the timing is essentially in step with last year’s iPhone 5 rollout, and was thus predictable. Now anytime Apple […]

So we have that unfortunate situation where Google bought Motorola Mobility for the princely sum of $12.5 billion in 2011. It has essentially gone nowhere in terms of restoring a fading handset division to profitability. Besides, the most popular Android smartphones are built by Samsung, which, as the unkindest cut of all, barely mentions Android […]

There’s so much wacky talk about tablets, iOS, Android, Apple, Samsung and sometimes the Microsoft Surface that it’s hard to keep pace with it all. First, tablets were on the ascent, rapidly soaring past PC sales. After all, PC sales were yesterday’s news. But now we have yet another projection from industry analyst IDC that […]

Some people are stuck in a rut, others are stuck with specs. So when doing comparisons among products in roughly the same category, they will put some numbers up on the screen, pronounce the ones with apparently higher numbers superior, and somehow believe something positive has been accomplished. You can find offenders of this lazy […]