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    Remember Low App Upgrade Prices?

    July 18th, 2013

    It wasn’t so long ago that users of an application could buy the all-new version at a discount. Usually it was half price, but it might be less, depending on the publisher and how recent a version you had. Some companies, such as Adobe, would actually charge more if you upgraded from an older version. […]


    The iOS 7 Flip-Out

    June 13th, 2013

    So let me get this straight. Before Apple demonstrated iOS 7, the pundits complained that little or nothing had changed in the past six years. It looked the same, after all, and Apple must make serious changes. Of course, hundreds and hundreds of new features were added, but some people don’t want to be bothered […]


    iOS 7: Flat Means Cleaner

    June 4th, 2013

    In releasing an iPhone and iPad app for the forthcoming WWDC, Apple may be offering a front and center preview of the new “flatter” interface for iOS 7 touted in recent press speculations. At least if you can regard this new app as a harbinger of things to come very, very soon. By the way, […]


    About Apple’s Services

    May 29th, 2013

    So from the lame pundit school of commentary comes a report claiming that Apple is essentially toast if cloud-based services aren’t fixed real fast. Google is cited as the industry standard, and Apple supposedly has nothing more than a few data centers, and loads of problems. Do you remember Mapgate? When I read articles of […]