Years ago, when I first arrived in Arizona, I visited the Scottsdale school district, which, at the time, was a showpiece for Mac technology. It has since gone to Windows, but that’s another story replete with the usual amount of political byplay. In the end, they were hoodwinked into thinking that kids should be using […]

I approach the news that Apple will be equipping a new call center in India with up to 3,000 people with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I’m pleased to know that the company is growing and that more people around the world will benefit by getting paid gigs, although it would be nice if […]

Now that Apple has begun to put Macs on an equal footing with standard PC hardware, at least in terms of the basic internal parts, pricing comparisons will become more common. In the past, it was easy to favor Apple in such a comparison, by pointing out that Macs had more standard features and superior […]

As Microsoft has learned in recent years, dominating a market isn’t always very easy and there are many chances to fail, not to mention occasionally drawing a little too much government attention. In the hardware arena, many of the smaller players have had their own brand of difficulties and that explains why Apple’s slightest misstep […]