Operation Gadget

Category: Apple, Inc.

  • Jim Dalrymple: Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it

    Reading Time: 2 minutes I have tons of respect for Jim Dalrymple. He is an inspiration to me.1 When he says what he said in Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it I certainly take notice: It’s not unreasonable to want to listen to an album in the context the artist wrote…

  • Apple iPhone Sales Too Low at Only 52,800 Per Day!

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Forgive the sarcasm implied by this post’s headline, but I cannot believe the reflexive way that the market reacts to quarterly results for companies that are lapping the field in their industry. Yesterday Apple reported sales and earnings for their fiscal third quarter that were fantastic. To use a phrase that…

  • Apple Corrected Location of Building on Apple Maps within Three Days

    Reading Time: < 1 minute One of the reasons I started RinkAtlas eight years ago was because a lot of the locations of hockey arenas that were available from navigation systems and mapping websites weren’t accurate. This continues to be a problem today, although the number of serious location errors keeps dropping. I had a…

  • Apple Has Been Willing to Obsolete Its Own Products

    Reading Time: < 1 minute If you haven’t read Jean-Louis Gassée’s post called BlackBerry: The Endgame, I’d really recommend reading it. The article talks about the missteps that Research In Motion / BlackBerry Limited took since the introduction of the iPhone that have lead to a spectatular loss in the value of their business. ….…

  • Casey Neistat Deserves Thanks for His Film on iPhone 6 Launch Day in NYC

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Yesterday I talked about the Chinese regulatory delays that created the conditions necessary for a gray market in iPhone 6 and 6 Plus devices to flourish. I felt like this information added context to Casey Neistat’s film, and was worthy of a full blog post here. Some other prominent bloggers…

  • Tim Cook on Privacy

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Update: This article was published about 12 hours before Apple published A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy. Here’s Part 2 of Charlie Rose’s interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook: I thought that the most interesting part of the second part of this interview was right…

  • Anti-Apple Publications Start Recognizing Apple’s Excellence

    Reading Time: 2 minutes For the last few years, Business Insider has made a name for itself by finding a way to point out the negative implications of current technology news on Apple Inc. So, I was surprised to read Jay Yarrow’s post, It’s Pretty Clear That Apple Is Winning The War With Samsung, which…

  • Apple Acquires Beats Electronics for $3 Billion

    Reading Time: < 1 minute Apple Inc. is acquiring Beats Electronics for $3 billion, culminating a deal that became a persistent rumor three weeks ago. Congratulations to Apple. If nothing else, this changes the perception among investors that Apple is not willing to pull the trigger on expensive acquistions. It’s clear to me that Apple…

  • Beware of the Word “Always” in Tech Press Headlines

    Reading Time: 2 minutes Martin O’Donnell sent me a link to this article on DailyFinance.com, Roku Will Always Offer the Ultimate Set-Top Box, in which Sam Mattera suggests that Roku will achieve and maintain this distinction because it has the least conflicts of interest of any of its current or expected competitors. According to the…