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CA's richest company sees smartphone future more clearly than critics
I am not an Apple cultist. I like the Silicon Valley icon, California's richest company, a great deal and agree that Steve Jobs is a transcendent historical figure. But I gave up on my iPhone 4 when I saw that Google's
Read MoreGoogle’s first U.S.-built smart phone coming to TX, not CA
June 4, 2013 By John Seiler As I reported yesterday, Apple is building its new GPU unit in Florida, not California. Now this: “Google-owned Motorola is working on a new smartphone that is made up of the things you’d expect:
Read MoreApple right to avoid ridiculous taxes
May 22, 2013 By John Seiler Apple Inc. is the world’s most profitable and admired company. It’s also the world’s biggest tax dodger. Reported the Wall Street Journal of a U.S. Senate grilling of CEO Tim Cook, “The Senate panel,
Read MoreChina bashing doesn’t help California
Oct. 26, 2012 By Joseph Perkins I imagine that Jeremy Potash, executive director of the California-Asia Business Council, winced this week while watching the foreign policy debate between President Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney. Her group is trying to increase
Read MoreBrown Wrong on Factory Job Loss Rate
FEB. 2, 2012 By WAYNE LUSVARDI California Gov. Jerry Brown may have met his moment of infamy on a Feb 1 TV show. He said, “California is losing manufacturing jobs at a rate no faster than the rest of the
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Apple Cracking Textbook Racket
John Seiler: The biggest ripoff going is textbooks for K-12 and, even worse, college. I know some college kids who spend way more than $1,000 a year for required textbooks for their college classes. Usually the texts are sub-par regurgitations
Read MoreSilicon Valley Should Buy Hollywood
Commentary: JAN. 19, 2012 By JOHN SEILER The Hollywood movie and recording companies are trying to censor the Internet. They’re pushing SOPA and PIPA: the Stop Online Piracy Act in the House and the Protect Intellectual Property Act in the
Read MoreDoes Not Compute
John Seiler: Over the years I’ve written many times how it remains a mystery that the state that continues to produce the Internet Revolution can’t get its government computers to work right. That pretty much tells you all you need
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