You know that Apple will never reveal all the down and dirty details of how it actually designs products. After all, they don’t want the likes of Dell and Microsoft to learn any of the intimate details. On the other hand, if you can believe Steve Jobs, the MacBook Air went through some 100 prototypes […]

Years ago, if you wanted to get online with your Mac, you had to buy an external modem. For portables, you bought the PC card version. But someone eventually realized that Internet access was a perfectly normal part of your computing experience, so modems became standard issue. In fact, the number of people who never […]

To tell you the truth, sometimes I prefer to simply ignore the latest round of speculation about possible iPod killers. Wall Street, of course, can’t stop worrying. When Sony introduced a new line of music players a while back, Apple’s stock went down. Surely Sony would make a dent in the iPod’s dominance, right? Napster […]