STORY #1: When Apple was considering just where to take its processor business, is it possible that it was planning to go with a startup company that had never released a single product? That’s what the stories say, that PA Semiconductor of Santa Clara, CA, was developing a PowerPC-compatible processor and that Apple had expressed […]

When 2005 began, I doubt that many of you expected Apple would announce a switch to Intel processors by the middle of the year. At the time, the new products included a pair of product lines that Apple said it wouldn’t produce: The Mac mini and the iPod shuffle. So you knew from the get-go […]

I don’t like to depend on what rumor sites say, although they are sometimes right. And when Mac developers violate their nondisclosure agreements with Apple and tell you things they shouldn’t be discussing, you want to both listen and tell them to keep their mouths shut. What a dilemma! But one fact is emerging from […]

You have to feel bad for Apple, really. Steve Jobs and his loyal crew are abandoning Freescale Semiconductor and IBM chips and moving to Intel to get faster, more power efficient parts. At the same time, the show must go on. It can’t stop updating existing products, even if it has to use more creative […]