So what market share do you expect the iPad to keep over the next five years? Despite being wrong on more than a few occasions, IDC suggests share will drop from an estimated 51% in 2012 to 43.5% as of 2017. Now that’s not bad for a single company, particularly when you compare the numbers […]

Every so often you hear from one tech commentator or another about how they converted to a different platform. At first it was a PC to Mac switcheroo, mostly where someone who had used Windows for years decided to give a Mac a try. The results were usually the same. Most things worked about the […]

So a story appeared this week claiming that Apple’s U.S. Mac sales rose 31% for the month of January as compared to last year. Since the report came from the NDP Group, which takes direct surveys of dealers, you can believe it. A key reason is most likely that Mac users have begun to receive […]

So as I write this column, Apple’s stock price continues to decline, though not quite as quickly as it did earlier this year. In case you forgot, it all started when an as yet unconfirmed report from Asia claimed that Apple had severely cut back on orders of displays for the iPhone 5, indicating what […]