In past years, the release of a new OS from Apple has meant a few weeks of aggravation, first with point-zero bugs and, just as important, the fact that loads of third-party apps just don’t work, or are partly functional. So it’s often a good idea just to wait till things settle down. But for […]

On Thursday, Apple released the first maintenance update for Mountain Lion, coming just over four weeks after the release of 10.8. This rapid schedule is pretty much par for the course. With every version of OS X, a fixer-upper has arrived a short time after the point-zero release. Now there have been several issues reported […]

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 […]