Archive for the 'Apple' Category


WWDC

Apple Special Event June 2, 2014 People are cheap and stupid. Apple is expensive and smart. And the press and the analysts are not too smart either. The former looks for the hook, the latter only looks for the money. And what Apple featured yesterday was software. Huh? A baby boomer covets a car. A […]

The Beats Deal

Blame it on Bob Morgado. Who? That’s just the point. This guy single-handedly destroyed the Warner Music Group, by believing it was about making the trains run on time, short term profit and loss, by not knowing that business is all about people. Huh? Warner was the dream team. Not the umbrella company, but the […]

Apple Buys Beats

The streaming music service, not the headphones. The headphones are going bonkers, despite every audiophile in the world castigating them for their bass-heavy frequency response, turns out music is a fashion item and everybody wants to be fashionable. Easier to spend a few hundred dollars on ear cans as opposed to a Rolls-Royce or a […]

iOS 7.1

Is this where I anger the Android users? You know, the ones who excoriate Apple at the same time being unable to upgrade the software on their phones? I don’t know about you, but I’m O.D’ed on feature creep. Or should we call it app creep. I’m sick and tired of twentysomethings inventing something new […]