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The Hanoi Hannah of the smartphone wars – updated

Who is The__Truth__Hurts and what does he (or she) have against Apple? FORTUNE — On September 10, a reader using the handle The__Truth__Hurts contributed his (or perhaps her) first comment on this site — a 163-word post that criticized Siri’s … Continue reading

Sculley and Kirkpatrick vs. a couple of Bloomberg gals

A veteran Apple watcher and a former Apple CEO add insight to insult FORTUNE — For readers who might someday find themselves on cable television fielding hostile and slightly clueless questions in your area of expertise, here’s a lesson from … Continue reading

Sculley and Kirkpatrick vs. a couple of Bloomberg gals

A veteran Apple watcher and a former Apple CEO add insight to insult FORTUNE — For readers who might someday find themselves on cable television fielding hostile and slightly clueless questions in your area of expertise, here’s a lesson from … Continue reading

Christmas Eve at the Apple, Microsoft and Sony stores

In Los Angeles’ Century City mall FORTUNE — In his second entry in our continuing series of contrasting store photos, reader Howard Kaplan paid another visit to the Westfield Century City mall, half-way between Beverly Hills and Westwood, California. The … Continue reading

Christmas Eve at the Apple, Microsoft and Sony stores

In Los Angeles’ Century City mall FORTUNE — In his second entry in our continuing series of contrasting store photos, reader Howard Kaplan paid another visit to the Westfield Century City mall, half-way between Beverly Hills and Westwood, California. The … Continue reading

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The Google Of The App Search Era Just Might Be Google

Only a few years in, and already the mobile application ecosystem has become an unfathomable jungle of applications – some 700,000-plus in the two top mobile app stores, Apple’s App Store and Google Play. And yet, we’re still waiting for … Continue reading

Steve Jobs’ yacht: The anatomy of a news cycle

The story rose and sank in less than a week FORTUNE — It was, in many ways, the perfect Apple-in-the-post-Steve-Jobs-era yarn, although in truth it had nothing to do with Apple (AAPL) and not much to do with Jobs. On … Continue reading

Chart of the day: Apple shares are still up nearly 29% this year

Which is more than you can say for most of Apple’s competitors — or the S&P 500 FORTUNE — Despite the three-month-long drubbing that lopped $248 billion (26%) off Apple’s market cap, its shares are still up 28.39% for the year. … Continue reading

Apple v. Samsung: Who’s been editing the judge’s Wikipedia entry?

Someone with an axe to grind has been messing with Lucy Koh’s page FORTUNE — At 8:07 p.m. Friday a Wikipedia user identified only by his or her IP address – 173.63.98.107 — added the following paragraph to the Wikipedia entry … Continue reading

Apple’s Merry Christmas message from the fiscal cliff

What better way to celebrate failures than to serenade loved ones, iPad to iPad mini? FORTUNE — More than one TV viewer tuning in to CNN Friday morning for House Speaker John Boehner’s grim press conference was surprised to see … Continue reading