Normally, the Apple Pay ecosystem is a buzzing hotbed of data in any given week, and the challenge is to pick between a buffet of options as to what the most interesting and important issues are. The week before earnings, the situation is a little...
When Apple Pay launched last fall it was hailed in many quarters as the great white mobile hope — the service that was finally going to make mobile payments more than a pipe dream for millions of consumers the world over. But as the year...
According to the latest round of Apple Watch rumors available on AppleInsider, sources close to the firm are claiming that the next-generation iteration of the Apple Watch may be going into trial production later this month — meaning a 2016 release could be possible. Taiwan’s...
As of the writing of this, something truly unusual is going on. Apple’s stock is trading at less than $100 a share. Certainly the team in Cupertino is not the only one feeling the market’s wrath this week, but it does serve as an...
In the midst of a brutal day on Wall Street that saw the Dow take a 250 point hit, Apple was far from immune to the sell enthusiasm that gripped the floor of the NYSE yesterday (Jan. 6). Apple’s stock price fell to its lowest...
Almost no one in the world is familiar with the name Cornelius McGillicuddy, and only the most avid baseball fans would know him better by his nickname, Connie Mack. Mack, FYI, was a baseball player in the early days of the professional game in the...
Generally speaking, the good news about a bad week is that things usually get better by comparison. The day after your car breaks down is, for the most part, better than the day before when it did, since although you may have lacked a working...
Since its inception, Apple Pay has been accepted at Whole Foods, which is a good thing for the iPhone owners of the world who want to eat healthful, organic and socially just food. But realistically, that is almost no one all of the time. Bad...
After a few weeks of relative quiet after its latest earnings report, Apple found itself back in headlines this week — for happy, not so happy and surprising reasons. Worries about Apple’s future started the week, particularly about its signature (and centrally important) iPhone line that saw...