Bryan Chaffin

You might remember Mr. Ahmad from such Apple Death Knells as #68, where he laid out a price target of US$60 for $AAPL in February of this year. He later upped his target to $85, but maintained a “Sell” rating on the the stock. Apple's stock is admittedly down since then, closing out Monday at…

  John Chen at Techonomy 2010 Source: Wikimedia You would think with that title Mr. Chen was offering a way forward in the debate over encryption and privacy. Only he doesn't. It's more like he's saying it's important to find a way to move forward without offering any solutions, proposals, or anything else germane to…

Nathan Donato-Weinstein reported that the space was last used by Maxim Integrated Products, a semiconductor firm that also sold the property to Apple. The significance there is that the building has clean room facilities, though it's far too small to significantly contribute to Apple's voracious chip needs. Marketing materials for the site described the space…

Steve Jobs Mural by Banksy Photo credit: Banksy's website Mr. Jobs, the biological son of a Syrian immigrant, is featured in the mural with a Mac in one hand and a bag of possessions over his other shoulder. The Jungle is where many Syrians and other refugees have gathered as they try to illegally reach…

iPhone 6s Smart Case “As you probably know from being a user of this now, one of the real insights here is, have you ever used other cases and tried to get them on? If you make this solid all the way across, in order to get it on, you'd find it very difficult to…

Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is cranky about the how his successor is handling some aspects of the business. During Microsoft's annual shareholder meeting Wednesday, Mr. Ballmer was critical of the company's accounting methods for his cloud and hardware businesses, as well as current CEO Satya Nadella's plan to bring more apps to Windows Phone.…

Apple CEO Tim Cook Mr. Cook and the other recipients will be honored during the 2015 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Gala, a charity event to raise money for the Center. Tickets for that event are available now and start at US$1,500. A quarter million dollars will get you two seats at…

Governments and intelligence agencies charged with protecting us are already on edge because of encryption built into iOS, Android, and even individual chat apps, and it's a sure thing that some of those governments will use the Paris attacks to push legislation mandating back doors into encryption systems or simply outlawing encrypted communications entirely. That…

Apple is open.” It was a standalone sentence in a long email from Apple CEO Tim Cook to his employees in the wake of a racial profiling incident at an Apple Store in Australia. That email reiterated a philosophy Mr. Cook has stated many times, that Apple is a company open to everyone, “regardless of…

First, the incident itself, which was captured on video, posted to Facebook, and then to YouTube:

Apple CEO Tim Cook Interviewed by RTE News Apple has increased its headcount in Cork from 4,000 to 5,000 employees in just the last 12 months, according to Mr. Cook. Over the next 18 months, Apple plans to add another 1,000 people. Mr. Cook said that roughly a quarter of Apple's European staff are based…

Amazon Books in Seattle's University Village Source: Amazon If you're not familiar with Seattle, but University Village rings a bell, that could be because it boasts an Apple Store, which then led to Microsoft opening up one of its retail stores across the street. I'll get into Apple-envy later in the piece, but the first…

The first ever, ever, ever electronic computer? Maybe. Screenshot from The Gothamist video I'll leave it to computer historians to argue the merits of that claim, but it's cool, and according to the same tour guide, “Every year, Apple computer chieftains, ultra super chieftain hoo-has, come down here…they go behind that board, and they literally…

​Apple CEO Tim Cook Here's the full quote from Tim Cook, which came 45 minutes into the conference call in response to a request for clarification from Steven Milunovich from UBS: For customers who purchased an iPhone last quarter, and [original emphasis] replaced a smartphone, that 30 percent of those switched from an Android device.…

Elon Musk and Tim Cook Taking a Ride in TMO's Rendering of an Apple Car  “Important engineers?” Mr. Musk told Handlesblatt when asked about Apple poaching employees from Tesla. “They have hired people we've fired. We always jokingly call Apple the 'Tesla Graveyard.' If you don't make it at Tesla, you go work at Apple.…