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    Watch Out for the iPhone Sales Conspiracy Theories

    July 27th, 2012

    As Apple’s stock price begins a tepid recovery after taking a dive on news that iPhone sales in the last quarter missed inflated analyst expectations, you can pretty much expect the sort of chatter that has begun. The most extreme would no doubt be whether the Apple gravy train has reached a stop sign. You […]


    The Apple Financials Report: Waiting For the Next iPhone

    July 25th, 2012

    All right, so Apple doesn’t walk on water. The company is not immune to the state of the world economy, nor to the impact of customers waiting on the sidelines in anticipation for a new model that may not ship until October. When you add such conditions up, it explains, in part, why Apple missed […]


    About the Post-PC and PC+ Eras

    July 17th, 2012

    Recent reports don’t paint a very promising picture for the PC industry. Most PC companies are destined to report flat or sinking sales in the U.S. and worldwide. Apple is expected to report an uptick in Mac sales, but how much depends, as it has for a while, on overseas growth. At the same time, […]


    Is Consumer Reports Having its Revenge Against Apple?

    July 10th, 2012

    No, that’s going way too far, but Consumer Reports still deserves more well deserved criticism. I want to expect better, because CR is run by a non-profit corporation that does not accept outside advertising and buys tested products at regular retail outlets. They aren’t getting freebies from a PR agency or a manufacturer’s corporate communications […]