It made perfect sense on an iPhone and an iPad. You have mobile appliances that exemplify simplicity. You want reliability and security, so Apple devised a single place where you can buy all your apps. Yes, the move may have been somewhat controversial to some who want to have choices that Apple won’t allow for […]

In a recent column for The Mac Observer, author Ted Landau suggests that OS X may some day be splintered into a consumer and professional level OS, perhaps as early as 10.9. This bifurcation would leave Mac users with a standard OS that very much mirrors the iOS, with its tight controls on the file […]

There has been so much speculation about what Apple would announce during the WWDC keynote that I hesitated to take much of it seriously. But I will focus on the reality and some of the key fictions, and maybe a few just-misses. But the opening, with Siri doing the intros, was certainly in keeping with […]

Since Apple moved the last iPhone upgrade from summer to fall, it is now assumed that this timetable is set in stone.  And I won’t say postponed, because Apple never said they were following a specific upgrade schedule. In any case, five months isn’t too early to take a ride on the speculation train, and it’s […]