Usually when Apple releases a new OS, there are loads of problems that require a fast maintenance update. This was very much true with iOS 8, where Apple released 8.0.1, with a buggy “wrapper” that was killed in about an hour and replaced with 8.0.2, with a fixed wrapper, the following day. With iOS 8.1 things […]

Apple is making a huge deal of one of the key components of OS X Yosemite, Handoff, part of the Continuity integration feature that allows relatively easy interaction with a Mac and iOS device. But many Mac users have been orphaned. Handoff lets you do what the name implies, which is to start a message, […]

So there’s a lurid story this week about some Bank of America customers encountering duplicate charges when using Apple Pay to cover a bill. The critics are yowling. Is Apple’s new digital wallet system fatally flawed? Should customers even bother with such silliness as NFC and Touch ID to replace simple if not-terribly-secure credit card swiping. Now first and […]

One of the most significant features of Yosemite is Continuity, a proper and efficient way for a Mac to talk to another Mac, or to an iOS device. This is the sort of integration that you can’t find at Google, Microsoft or Samsung. The critics might regard this is a scheme on Apple’s part to perpetrate the […]