Over the years, one of the reasons why Apple has persevered despite lots and lots of failures in products and the “vision thing” is because so many people love their Macs and were willing become unpaid cheerleaders. Indeed, there is something about the Mac experience that — even though the computers remain highly imperfect devices […]

From stem to stern, you are seeing the iPhone dissected, boosted, obliterated, and everything in between. Whatever happened at the CES this week doesn’t matter at all. It was all Apple from the moment Steve Jobs took the stage at Moscone West Tuesday morning. Did Bill Gates give a keynote? Sure he did, but did […]

Over the years, some analysts have suggested that Apple made a grave mistake in not setting up a real cloning program early on, so other computers could run the Mac OS. If only the company had listened to Bill Gates and others, today Apple might really own the computer market, not just in mindshare, but […]

When Bill Gates said Microsoft had spent between $8 billion and $9 billion to develop Windows Vista and Office 2007, my mind clouded briefly before I stared at the screen in disbelief. Consider how often it took Apple two years or more to accumulate that much money, and you’ll get the picture. Even now, thousands […]