As expected, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unleashed the Motorola ROKR, the first cell phone compatible with iTunes, at a media briefing this morning. Jobs likened the flashy new phone as “really an iPod shuffle on your phone. Both devices can shuffle, both can autofill, neither has a click wheel — but the phone has a […]

To tell you the truth, sometimes I prefer to simply ignore the latest round of speculation about possible iPod killers. Wall Street, of course, can’t stop worrying. When Sony introduced a new line of music players a while back, Apple’s stock went down. Surely Sony would make a dent in the iPod’s dominance, right? Napster […]

For as long as I can remember, one of the biggest objections Windows users posed to buying a Mac was the price. The conventional wisdom, repeated by many technology writers, had it that you must pay a premium to buy a product with the Apple logo on it. But is it really true? Well, if […]

Editor’s Note: Since I’ve already said my piece about what’s to come later today, and then some, I’ve decided to give Grayson the floor. We’ll have a full update after the keynote ends. Well, here I sit on my father’s laptop relaxing in a comfy hotel room in the heart of San Francisco. The rumor […]