In recent years, Apple has allowed customers to take a huge chance. As with members of Apple’s developer program, you can get early access to Apple’s operating systems, for better or worse. And sometimes it can be for worse. While Apple wasn’t doing public betas of what was then called the Mac OS in the […]

When the Mac App Store arrived last year, some suggested it was only Apple’s first foray to move all Mac app sales under a single umbrella. Independent retail sales would be history, and Mac developers would soon have to get with the program in order to sustain a viable business. Now from a practical standpoint, […]

No sooner than the ink dried on the updated iPhone 4.0 developers agreement than the complaints flared up. Apple was engaged in a plot to destroy Adobe, and kill a number of third-party development tools that were supposed to make it easier to build iPhone apps — and those for other mobile platforms too. Here’s […]

Fourteen years ago, when Microsoft unleashed Windows 95 upon the world and cemented its position as the developer of the number one PC operating system on the planet, they presented a set of smart TV ads featuring The Rolling Stones. But that was then and this is now, and things haven’t gone so well for […]