Last week, Microsoft came out with a version of Cortana for the iPad.  Cortana is already out for iPhone, but now, it has been optimized and released for the iPad screens.  Not only that, it is reportedly “20 percent faster,” according to the release notes. Compared to Google Assistant and Siri, Cortana can do essentially everything […]

Apple’s fiscal fourth quarter earnings have been released,   Apple’s revenues of $46.9 billion are in lne with the modest expectations of analysts; earnings per share of $1.67 beat expectations.  However, the company has reported their first YoY revenue decline since the iPhone was first introduced. Revenues were off nearly $9 billion vs. last year.  The stock […]

On July 27, Apple reported their fiscal 2016 third quarter results.  They company had a quarterly revenue of $42.4 billion, which was down 15 percent year-over-year.  But despite that, the good news was that this number still beat financial analyst consensus estimates.  Apple’s revenue last year was at $49.6 billion. Apple’s gross margin was also down year-over-year, […]

Flurry, a mobile analytics, monetization, and advertising company, released their holiday mobile stats showing that Apple devices captured almost half of all device activations over the 2015 holiday season.  Following Apple is Samsung with approximately 20%, Nokia with 2% and LG with 1.7%.  The difference between Apple and the rest of the competitors is huge. The percentage of […]