$46.33 billion in revenue. It's a number the biggest and best tech companies in the world can only dream to hit in a year. Apple hit it in one quarter. $13.06 billion in profit. It's a number...The Day Apple Left The Tech World’s Collective Mouth Agape
$46.33 billion in revenue. It's a number the biggest and best tech companies in the world can only dream to hit in a year. Apple hit it in one quarter. $13.06 billion in profit. It's a number...Apple Just Incentivized Every College Kid To Get An iPad. As For High Schoolers…
As I watched Apple's iBooks event in New York City last week, my mind began to race about the ramifications of such announcements. Everyone had a pretty good idea for weeks (or months if you read the Steve Jobs biography) that textbooks would be...Just A Friendly Reminder: If You Sold Your Apple Stock In October, You Were, In Fact, An Idiot
On October 19 of last year I wrote a post entitled: If You Sold Your Apple Stock Today, You're An Idiot. Because their Q4 numbers missed Wall Street expectations, Apple's stock dropped over 5 percent...For The 5th Year In A Row, Apple Wins CES. Before It Starts. Without Showing Up.
Are you ready for CES? I know I am. The PR emails are flowing in and I'm going to respond to every single one of them. I can't wait to hear about Samsung's social media stuff. And...Apple’s Terrific And Tumultuous 2011
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
Those words seem to encapsulate Apple's 2011 perfectly. The year saw the company both became the most valuable company in the world and lose its founder, savior, visionary, and leader.
Earlier, Erick...Why Hasn’t Safari Skyrocketed Like Chrome Has?
The past few days, there's been a lot of talk about web browsers. The report that Google will be paying Mozilla close to one billion dollars over the next three years to ensure that their search engine remains the default for...Mark It Down: June 6, 2012
"Six months from now you'll say the opposite. Because ultimately applications vendors are driven by volume. And the volume is favored by the open approach that Google is taking."
That was Google Chairman Eric Schmidt speaking at...The Promise Of The 15-Inch MacBook Air
In my home office sits a 27-inch iMac with a secondary 24-inch LED Cinema Display attached to it. It's a glorious vision of screen real estate.
And yet, I dread using it.
First world problem? It's perhaps the definition...Apple May Have Won The PC War… By Losing The Windows Battle
What exactly is a PC? That question is likely to become a hot topic over the next few years.
Originally, we thought of PCs as the Apple II or then the IBM PC. They were machines that had to sit on a desk because,...The Jerk
Like everyone else in the tech world, I've been reading Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography. Simultaneously, I've been reading the reactions to it. The one that seems to stand out above all others amounts to: "wow, Steve Jobs was a jerk". Those...The Death Of The Spec
Earlier today, my colleague Matt Burns wrote a post noting that most tablet makers may be largely failing because they've sold their soul to Android and are now just in the middle of a spec war, which no one can win....Steve’s Last Laugh: Adobe Killing Off Flash For Mobile Devices
The year was 2008. I was at an event focused on mobile, sitting in on a roundtable discussion with several folks from key companies in the industry. One gentleman was from Adobe. The iPhone had launched the previous year, famously without any...