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#154 Feb 21, 2019 The Apple Bank – I'm fascinated by today's scoop in The Wall Street Journal by Tripp Mickle, Liz Hoffman, and Peter Ru
#153 Feb 14, 2019 All Your Subscriber Base Are Belong To Us – We seem on the verge of Apple launching the next phase of Operation: Services. The latest salvo is li
#152 Feb 10, 2019 Do Not Pass Amazon Go – Last week, I shoplifted. Not intentionally, mind you. Still. What a moment! My crime? Taking a bag wi
#151 Feb 7, 2019 Bezos Bomb – I had this whole preamble written -- and about Amazon, no less -- when all hell broke loose and Jeff
#150 Jan 23, 2019 Tumblr Too – With each new year, I try to come up with a content gameplan for the year. With an ever-increasing nu
#149 Jan 16, 2019 Links & Takes – As we approach issue 150 (this is 149!), trying something slightly different. Well, really a combinat
#148 Jan 10, 2019 Apple, At Your Service – iTunes. On Samsung TVs. It's mind-boggling. For a few reasons -- I'll have more on this soon. For now
#147 Jan 3, 2019 The Watching Hour – I'm not big into New Years resolutions. Probably because, like everyone else, I never stick to them.
#146 Dec 31, 2018 On To 2019... – Here we are, the final day of 2018. The last day for Apple to ship AirPower -- LOL. Not much to say o
#145 Dec 11, 2018 The Microsoft Comes Around – A funny thing happened a couple weeks back: Microsoft became the most valuable company in terms of ma
#144 Dec 3, 2018 All the Thanks to Give – Hello there. I know I use the “it’s been awhile” thing from time-to-time, but this time it really has
#143 Sep 25, 2018 Instagram Unfiltered – Look, I don’t know what happened at Facebook that caused Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Kr
#142 Sep 20, 2018 The End of Inbox – Well, the Cleveland Browns just won their first game since 2016. As tempted as I am to write about th
#141 Sep 10, 2018 Apps Along the Watchtower – It's hard to come up with something that has been as poorly conceived by Apple as their plan for Appl
#140 Sep 3, 2018 In XS – Another week, another year, another major Apple flub. Just hours after the invites went out to Apple'
#139 Aug 27, 2018 A Disjointed Rant About Retro... – I had written something else here originally, then I realized that basically everything I was linking
#138 Aug 21, 2018 Those Airy MacBooks – Many of us still recall the way Steve Jobs unveiled the MacBook Air. It was clever, cute, and iconic
