From a note to Wedbush clients that landed on my desktop Sunday.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering Apple since 1983 — mostly for Time Magazine (28 years), later for Fortune (9 years), where he wrote a daily blog called Apple 2.0. [Read more.] ...

"I'm thinking to myself, how much would you pay for these seats if you were really there?" ...

What's surprising is how many of the features and products he introduced next were disappointments.

From Ed Hardy's "iOS 26 still struggles to gain traction with iPhone users" posted Thursday by Cult of Mac.

From Kalley Huang and Tripp Mickle's "The Man Who Could Be Apple’s Next C.E.O." (free) posted Thursday.

From Cybart's "A Different Sales Proposition for Apple Vision Pro?" posted Friday to Above Avalon subscribers.

X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?

"How PLA could use ‘decapitation’ strike to counter Taiwan’s ‘porcupine’ strategy" posted Saturday by the South China Morning Post.

From Dave James' "Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in maybe 5 years" posted Tuesday by ...

From "FY 26 First Quarter Results" posted Tuesday by Apple Investor Relations.

From CNBC's "Stock futures fall, with the Dow and S&P 500 set to pull back further from record highs" posted early Thursday.