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    Newsletter #482 Preview: Is Microsoft the Catch Up King?

    February 22nd, 2009

    Let’s take a fascinating journey through time, before many of you readers were using Macs or any personal computer for that matter. Back in the 1980s, when most user interfaces were text-based, Apple burst on the scene with the Macintosh. Even then, though, they only had a minority share of the marketplace (although larger than […]


    Newsletter #444 Preview: Will Apple Lose its Cult Following?

    June 1st, 2008

    One common definition of a cult is, “a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing.” Some might feel that Apple’s customers, particularly the ones that have been around for a decade or two, can be considered a cult. Now I don’t know that I’m a cult member, although I have used Macs […]