For the longest time, Apple has maintained that Macs and iOS gear — iPhones and the iPads — are meant to be separate gadgets. Operating systems, related to one another at the core, are otherwise quite different. Macs are meant to be managed via keyboard and mouse, while iPhones and iPads use touchscreens; well, except […]

There’s no dispute that the lack of serious Mac refreshes this year can be blamed on Intel. The new Broadwell chip family, using 14 nanometer dies, is late to the party. The chips that Apple requires for Macs aren’t available yet, and that may push those refreshes off to 2015. So to make do, Apple […]

A popular joke, and maybe it’s not so funny, is that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is a classic definition of insanity. If we take that concept literally, what can you say about Microsoft? After all, the company has been touting tablets for years, and has failed […]

During the most recent financial quarter, Microsoft spent huge amounts of money to entice you to buy a Surface RT tablet. The ads were loud, frantic, and were models of misdirection in the sense that you learned nothing more about the tablet other than it was a device that made lots of clicks and resembled […]