Tag: iPhone

Financial Predictions for 2014: I Predict They Will be Mostly Useless

T’is the time of year when the financial media outlets — both lay and professional — are chock-full of stories about what 2014 will bring. Should you listen to them? I’ll start off with a blanket response to that question of nyet, and soften it only if you promise to […]

Today’s Phishing Report: Knowing the All-Important Hover Function

Janie Clark and Stacey Cook write to tell me that my HDTV order has shipped. But — oh no! — they went and shipped my HDTV (I want my HDTV!) to the wrong addresses (499 S paolo St, Appartments [sic] 5B ,S Maria, DC [sic]/ United States and 259 11th Dr […]

The Difference Between Business-People and Financiers

Recently we’ve been exposed to a great example of the difference between business-people and financiers, in the guise of a clearly successful financier asserting, quite a bit more broadly, that he was a clearly successful business-person. I speak, of course, of Mitt Romney, private equity hero, repeatedly asserting that he […]

Apples to Apples to Ice Cream Trucks: The Current Numeric Verdict is In

Much has been made this week of Apple becoming the most valuable company in history (as long as you ignore inflation). One comparo really caught me eye, though, which is this pull-quote, which had lain entombed within a New Yorker-length article in Vanity Fair until Forbes was kind enough to pull out this pull-quote […]

And you call *this* a bad Apple?!

Apple’s numbers are in the news today, but this time the newsworthiness is not stemming from the numbers being great, but, rather, from the numbers falling short of the fantastic sorts of numbers people have come to expect. Personally, I still find them fantastic, in the sense of having somewhat of […]