It’s fascinating how certain media predictions come to be. So there’s a story that Apple will introduce an iPhone 5s, and a cheaper alternative, come August. This would be in keeping with the introduction timetable for the iPhone 5, which arrived 11 months after the iPhone 4s. But there’s yet another story suggesting it’ll happen […]

On Monday, Apple’s stock price remained in negative territory, falling faster than the market as a whole. You have to think the company must be in bad shape for such a thing to happen. But when you read reports that Apple reported record revenues last year, that Mac sales reportedly increased 31% in the U.S. […]

So consider the possible logic of the situation. Palm hires a former Apple hardware executive, John Rubinstein, to head the company. Not long thereafter, Palm releases a new line of smartphones featuring the Web OS, but it’s too little and too late. The iPhone has turned the market on its head, and it would take […]

So Bill Gates is disappointed that Microsoft hasn’t done more to gain a substantial foothold in the smartphone market. Well, maybe, but coming up with a credible alternative to the iOS and Android, and discovering that noisy ads only turn people off, would be good for a start. But you have to wonder about many […]