Aggravated Apple Fan Boy

Apple is stooping to the very corporate shenanigans it eschewed at its inception because of the influence, not of Steve Jobs, but of Steve Wozniak‘s largess. Its latest and greatest OS (named after who ever can remember which large cat) has “over 200 amazing new features.” Oh give me strength! Many of these are so minor, so insignificantly incremental they… Continue reading

Fortune’s CEO of the Decade: Apple’s Jobs

The financial results have been nothing short of astounding — for Apple and for Jobs. The company was worth about $5 billion in 2000, just before Jobs unleashed Apple’s groundbreaking “digital lifestyle” strategy, understood at the time by few critics. Today, at about $170 billion, Apple is slightly more valuable than Google (GOOG, Fortune 500). Its market share in personal… Continue reading