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 […]

So after hearing that “conventional wisdom” about the Mac dying or just being ignored spouted again and again by some supposedly knowledgeable tech pundits, it does appear from the WWDC this week that this is just not so. Rather than cut back on OS X development, for example, Apple has accelerated it to an annual […]

I suppose it all started with the release of Final Cut Pro X. Apple threw out the playback for its professional video editing app, and many video editors who depended on FCP for their workflows howled. Yes, they had good reason at the beginning, because Apple had to dump mission-critical features to get the first […]