So the conventional wisdom, such as it is, has it that Apple is being forced kicking and screaming into building a lower cost iPhone. Although the top-of-the-line model is relatively inexpensive on a subsidized postpaid carrier contract (the one you pay when you get a bill), it’s a huge jump if you have to pay […]

So this past weekend, AllThingsD, a tech site owned by the publishers of the Wall Street Journal, posted a  report that Apple plans to hold a media event on Tuesday, September 10th. The purpose? Why to introduce a new iPhone of course. Now I normally do not give a whole lot of credence to speculation […]

For better or worse, Apple has been busy integrating its mobile and desktop operating systems since Lion arrived in 2011. To some, this move was a bad thing, particularly when it came to redesigning the scrollbars and making them only show up on mouseover as a default setting. Reversing the scrolling behavior to something Apple […]

When two local store owners play tricks against one another to get extra business, you don’t like it, but you sort of expect it to happen from time to time. But somehow it’s believed that corporations must adhere to a higher standard, though that doesn’t seem to happen all that often. So you have situations […]