Apple leads record return of cash to shareholders
Apple's Tim Cook to billionaire Carl Icahn: Step aside
In Friday's proxy statement, Apple ignored Icahn and spoke directly to its serious investors.
No big raise for Tim Cook: Apple pays CEO $4.25 million in 2013
Christmas tweets: 'got iPad' clobbered 'got Note' and 'got Kindle'
In a Topsy search of holiday tweets, Microsoft's Surface barely moved the needle.
Charts: How Apple's iOS users outspent Android on Christmas day
2013: The year in Apple and technology at large
Editorial: 2013 was a terrible year for both Apple's competitors and its media critics
...It's really quite hard to imagine what Google, Microsoft and Samsung could have done in 2013 that would have delivered more disastrous results. And this summary fails to even mention the pure implosions of crisis that battered Nokia, BlackBerry, LG and HTC this year.
Conversely, Apple has incrementally strengthened its position in multiple arenas, reestablishing itself as firmly committed to professional desktop systems with the new Mac Pro, unveiling an entirely fresh iOS 7 and enhanced new OS X Mavericks (with record user adoption rates seen for both), and pushing out a strong series of new iWork productivity apps, iLife apps and iCloudofferings, for free, to shore up the competitive advantage of its mobile, desktop and cloud computing platforms.
Isn't it interesting that the majority of analysts, research groups and the media all collectively failed to present the reality of what was happening in 2013, and instead were all busy scrambling to portray Apple as dead in the water and in a desperate state battered by competitors that were actually quite dysfunctional and scattered in their various strategies and product introductions?
I like John Gruber, but I would say that Daniel Eran Dilger was more spot-on calling out these "tech writers" as either liars or misinformed.
see above: 2013 was a terrible year for both Apple's competitors and its media critics
The NY Times piece isn't worth the time it takes to read it.
I think Phillip Elmer Dewitt should weigh-in with a little more of his own opinion from time to time.
John Gruber on Apple: Damned if they do, damned if they don't
Apple: It's A Matter Of What, Where And Why
Apple asks judge to keep patent pressure on Samsung
Good decision!
CPU, RAM upgradeable
Teardown of Apple's new Mac Pro reveals socketed, removable Intel Xeon CPU
Apple ditches the discs
Apple's radically re-imagined Mac Pro is a powerhouse performer
4K Displays and the new Mac Pro: It's more complicated than you think
Another Store in a historic building about to open
Apple signage says new flagship Brisbane, Australia store opening soon
Help family members keep track of Apple ID/iCloud details with TUAW's fill-out form
Yet another defection from Apple to Tesla, pretty soon everyone in Silicon Valley will have worked and been trained by Apple.
One could say that every product in the valley since 1984 has Apple's technology built into it, even more so since 2001
Tesla taps Apple manufacturing veteran to lead vehicle manufacturing technologies
It's complicated.
HTC details how carriers, chipset makers stall & block Android OS updates
Also: HTC head designer indicted for leaking trade secrets & more
Korean press shocked at Samsung's Galaxy S4 sales disaster
