As I read the complaints about the lack of a Web cam and “true multitasking” on the iPad, I’m reminded of the complaints folks voiced years ago about the original Mac OS. In those days, as I mentioned in yesterday’s column, Apple cobbled together a cooperative multitasking system to allow you to run more than […]

The conventional wisdom — which is seldom conventional — has it that Apple and Microsoft must tout loads of flashy new features to justify asking their customers to pay for their ongoing operating system upgrades. That may be true, all right, but it only presents part of the picture. Now as some of you recall, […]

In recent days, the tech media has been struggling to lower our expectations about what Steve Jobs might reveal during his Macworld Expo keynote. Despite getting less buzz than last year’s iPhone roll-out, there was still plenty of meat and potatoes to chew over. Here’s a brief summary of the keynote announcements, and I’ll have […]

Consider that the event is known as the Worldwide Developers Conference, not Macworld Expo. Despite that, far too many people expected the sun, the moon and the stars when it comes to new product announcements during the Steve Jobs keynote address. Certainly it’s not as if Apple isn’t partly guilty for raising those expectations. The […]