The judicial rebuke could not have been stronger. It was a case about a drug dealer in New York, not a terrorist in California. But when U.S. Magistrate…
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Timing is everything. J. Edgar Hoover was a master at this game. The legendary FBI director would latch on to the latest boogeyman—the Lindbergh kidnapper, a…
Apple and the FBI Are Playing With Fire
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9 years agoWhere Apple's fight with the feds fits in the history of strong cryptography. I'm old enough to remember when encryption technologies not half as powerful as…
Today Is Steve Jobs' Birthday
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9 years agoHe would have been 61. As I did when he was still running Apple (aapl), I'd like to celebrate Steve Jobs' life by re-posting the most…
Apple vs. FBI: Who Elected Tim Cook?
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9 years ago"We didn't elect Tim Cook to protect privacy," writes Robert Levine in a Sunday New York Times op-ed piece about the San Bernardino stand-off between Apple…
For Tim Cook, it’s all about the ASPs. Sunday's post "How Apple Sucks the Profit Out of Mobile Phones," prompted a reader objection: "I think you should drop…
Read More The Apple iOS and Android Price Gap Just Gets Wider
2015 was a tough year for the also rans. Here's an interactive bar chart that will give you a sense of how thoroughly Apple dominates the…
He was obsessed with his market cap. While watching Google's market value surpass Apple's in after-market trading last night—ending Apple's on-and-off reign as the world's most…
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The Monthification of Apple
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9 years agoIt was Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research who several months ago came up with a word—"monthification"—for what Apple management spent so much of last week's earnings…
He's trying to excuse, or at least explain, last quarter's disappointing results. Given the bad news Apple CEO Tim Cook had to deliver last week—about the first…
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