You know, everyone loves a good conspiracy theory, and while I’ve got your attention, let me make it quite clear that this really isn’t a single or unified movement to wreck the company. No, it’s a collection of conspiracies, separate movements that, while no doubt honorable in intent, would end up destroying Apple Computer as […]

Technology companies maintain large legal staffs devoted to intellectual property matters. Patents are routinely applied for to cover even the most innocuous inventions, just in case a rival company might get there first. So it comes as no surprise to learn that Apple Computer is only one of a number of companies that routinely tries […]

Before we go any further, I want to make it perfectly clear that I am quite disinterested in those unofficial reports about alleged “Trusted Computing” hardware on the test Macintels developers have leased from Apple. A host of paranoid speculation has arisen out of such reports, that Apple is going to impose onerous digital rights […]