I admit to being a fan of the legendary “Fab Four,” but their arrival on iTunes this week failed to elicit more than yawn on my part. It’s not as if the music, even in digitally remastered form, hasn’t been available from physical media outlets for quite some time. You could always rip your CDs […]

I read an article the other day quoting an executive from Lenovo claiming that far fewer and fewer customers were buying note-books with optical drives. The number continues to decrease year after year. But Apple already figured that out when the MacBook Air was originally introduced. At the time, the Air was roundly criticized because […]

You just know that when Apple holds a special event, everything will be coming up roses. There’s never bad news, even when products or features vanish from the lineup. Ahead of the new product announcements at Apple’s special event this week, among the more fascinating numbers was the one indicating that some 120 million iOS […]

No, folks, this isn’t a conspiracy theory, nor do I actually believe Apple’s being especially secretive about the things they do to make you switch from one technology standard to another. But it sometimes takes a few years to comprehend their vision. Take the decision to embrace USB in 1998 starting with the original iMac. […]