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    Newsletter Issue #592: Apple’s Final Solution for People Who Hate PCs

    April 4th, 2011

    Let me tell you that I have always lusted after great technology. I suppose my addiction began in the days before personal computers became commonplace, when I bought an electric typewriter with rudimentary word processing capabilities. What that meant was a storage card that would record a limited number of characters, offering a barely capable […]


    Can’t You Live Without an Apple Product Update? (Revised!)

    February 23rd, 2011

    Editor’s Note: Hours after I wrote the article below, Apple sent out one of its famous media invitations, announcing a special event to be held in San Francisco on March 2nd. As usual, the illustration in the invitation provides a broad hint at what it’s all about. In this case, the date is slightly peeled […]


    Newsletter Issue #585: Yet Another Effort to Turn Two Failures into a Success

    February 14th, 2011

    So let’s see now. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is the former head of Microsoft’s Business Division, a position he held until September of last year. In passing, he was also CEO of Macromedia before Adobe acquired the company. In a recent revealing memo, Elop admitted that Nokia’s mobile platform is collapsing around them. True, Nokia […]


    Some Petty iOS Annoyances

    January 21st, 2011

    That the iPhone is a major success, with Apple barely able to keep up with the increasing demand, certainly demonstrates that the competition doesn’t offer a whole lot of credibility. Sure, there may be more Android OS smartphones sold in the U.S., but that number includes loads of models from several different companies, some at […]