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    Can Apple Blow It Before Microsoft Self Destructs?

    February 17th, 2009

    After looking at the mock-up for Windows Mobile 6.5, I am apt to think that there’s nothing that Microsoft can do that’s innovative in any fashion. The upgraded interface merely comes across as a mixture of the cheesy Windows desktop environment, along with a Home button essentially copied from the Mac OS, sans the chimney. […]


    Is Apple Running Out of Ideas?

    October 2nd, 2008

    So I saw an article in BusinessWeek, entitled “Apple: A Product Plateau?,” which suggests that maybe our favorite fruit company is running out of bright ideas. Of course, the media used to claim that Apple was about to go out of business, and you saw what happened to those predictions. Of course, a lot of […]


    Why Apple Needs Competition?

    November 30th, 2006

    With all the pretenders to the iPod throne clearly failing, and the Zune may join the list unless sales pick up big time real soon, you wonder if Apple can continue to float along as it has, resting on its laurels. To be sure, the latest updates to the iPod line were mostly cosmetic and […]


    Apple Continues to Make Money the Old Fashioned Way

    April 21st, 2006

    Depending on whose expectations you’ve followed, Apple exceeded them or didn’t quite meet them. In recording the second best financial quarter in its history, Apple reported revenues of $4.36 billion for the quarter ending in March, which is somewhat less than the analysis from Thomson First Call of $4.5 billion. However, net income was $410 […]