Apple released the final version of the iOS 10.3 update on Monday. But for many who had already installed the beta seeds, it was a slightly more full-featured maintenance update to what appears to have been a relatively trouble-free OS release. But the most significant new feature may be something Apple hasn’t really made a fuss […]

So Apple will probably have more iPad updates in the coming weeks or months. But that takes us back to Apple’s “other” entry in the personal computer space, the Mac. Where are the spring Mac refreshes? Are there going to be any? More to the point, when Apple CEO Tim Cook asserts that the company […]

During the year in which Windows 10 was offered as a free download, Microsoft got itself in hot water with its overly aggressive behavior to convince people to install it. How so? Well, the installer was first downloaded in the background. Nothing wrong with that, as nothing forced a Windows user to switch. Where things really went […]

When I brought a Mac into my home in 1989, after using one for several years at the office, I thought I had a truly high-end computer. It had chosen a Macintosh IIcx. Released that year, it sat just below the Macintosh IIx in the lineup, but was relatively affordable as Macs went, at least in those days. […]