When you depart from a Steve Jobs keynote, it’s usually hard to keep from smiling, and the same holds true, in large part, when you watch the QuickTime playback stream, although you aren’t sharing the “reality distortion field” experience with thousands of fellow Mac users and tech pundits. Either way, you will probably come down […]

Consider today’s conventional wisdom. Microsoft is the bad guy, a huge, lumbering beast that has trampled on lesser companies in order to attain and enforce its PC monopoly. More to the point, lots of people agree. They tolerate Microsoft and regard it as an 800-pound gorilla they must deal with whether they like it or […]

You don’t have to remind me that Apple owns the digital music market. What’s more, it’s now doing better than some of the well-known retail music chains, such as Sam Goody. Everything is coming up roses, and Apple has no incentive to change anything, except to keep ahead of the competition, such as it is. […]