Sometimes danger signs come from unexpected sources. Yes, you know that not everyone is happy with the fact that the iPod is the only portable player on which you can play the songs and TV shows you buy from the iTunes Music Store. And some of you resent even any restrictions on your ability to […]

The phrase “iPod killer’ may be among of the funniest of the last few years. It has been applied to every new MP3 player that some technology pundit felt would give the iPod its comeuppance. Well, as we all know, the only things that got killed were those competitive products, which failed in the marketplace. […]

I’m a free market person through and through and I do not like monopolies of any kind. I am happy, for example, that Microsoft’s share of the browser and operating system market appears to be eroding, if only a tiny bit. At the same time, it’s fair to say Apple has a monopoly of its […]

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 […]