Depending on your point of view about a situation, you can either kick someone when they’re down, or support them and give them a reasonable amount of time to recover. Since Apple Inc. is at the top of the world these days, you can bet that any problems they encounter will be amplified. After all, whatever [...]

Just ahead of the news of Apple’s stellar quarterly financials, their stock price increased a trickle, which seems at wide variance with the results.
In brief, Apple beat the street, as is typical, with record sales of $7.46 billion for the quarter ending June 28, 2008. Profits came in at $1.07 billion, or $1.19 per diluted [...]

You have to feel bad for Apple, really. Steve Jobs and his loyal crew are abandoning Freescale Semiconductor and IBM chips and moving to Intel to get faster, more power efficient parts. At the same time, the show must go on. It can’t stop updating existing products, even if it has to use more creative [...]