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 […]

Back in December, folks who like to talk about possible new Apple products speculated that the first round of MacIntels would be confined to the consumer computer lines. I’m not sure where these ideas came from, and I’ll be charitable and suggest that “informed sources” were involved in at least a few of these cases. […]

As you may have heard elsewhere, Apple plans a Special Event on February 28th. Journalists are receiving cryptic messages in their mailboxes, asking them to “Come see some fun new products from Apple.” Fun? Well, that raises lots of possibilities. But if you take “fun” as representing a consumer computer, there is one set of […]

There are too few visionaries in this world, and when one leaves us prematurely, we must mourn that passing. So it is with sadness that I read the news that Jef Raskin, considered by some to be the father of the Mac, died Saturday at the age of 61, a victim of pancreatic cancer. Raskin […]