• The Hanoi Hannah of the smartphone wars

    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 reliability, pointed out that there still wasn't (at the time) an iPhone that supported high-speed LTE networking and made the dubious...

  • 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 reliability, pointed out that there still wasn't (at the time) an iPhone that supported high-speed LTE networking and made the dubious...

  • 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 a couple of pros.

    John Sculley, former CEO of Apple (AAPL), and David Kirkpatrick, my former colleague at Fortune, deftly turned a 7-minute...

  • 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 a couple of pros.

    John Sculley, former CEO of Apple (AAPL), and David Kirkpatrick, my former colleague at Fortune, deftly turned a 7-minute...

  • 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 photo at right and the first one below were was taken at the Apple (AAPL) store.

    The two below that were shot at...

  • 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 photo at right and the first one below were was taken at the Apple (AAPL) store.

    The two below that were shot at...

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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 the Google of the mobile app era to come in and save us from the mess that is today’s app...

  • 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 Friday, Reuters reported that the 260-foot aluminum yacht that Jobs commissioned before he died had been seized by Dutch authorities in a...

  • 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.

    In fact, many analysts believe those gains are the primary reason the stock fell from its all-time intraday high of $705.07 in...

  • 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 for Judgy Lucy H. Koh, who oversaw the Apple v. Samsung patent infringement trial last August:

    It has been discussed extensively in...