Predictably many of the stories about Apple’s record fourth fiscal quarter concentrated on diminishing iPad sales. It wasn’t so bad this time, some 12.3 million sales. Consider what the competition is doing, and it’s not pretty. But compared to last year’s results of 14.08 million, it didn’t look so well. During the quarterly call with […]

Normally, when Tim Cook introduces an Apple media event, there are lots and lots of numbers. That’s Tim’s expertise, and you expect he’s working his Numbers spreadsheets overtime to select the results that are most favorable to Apple. That sort of happened during Apple’s Thursday media event, where new iPads and a 5K Retina iMac were […]

They talk about art imitating life, but more often than not, there’s only a slight resemblance of the former to the latter. Take a recent episode of a police detective procedural, the rebooted “Hawaii 5-0,” which had a plot device that might present concerns about the Touch ID fingerprint sensor on an iPhone. Before I go […]

It is certain that Apple seems to be beset with lots of problems these days. While everything appeared to be coming up roses when the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were launched on September 9th at a media event, things sort of went downhill from there. Even the live stream of that event had […]