The original announcement about Mountain Lion came as a surprise to many of you. Before the first preview of OS 10.8 went live in February, odds were that there wouldn’t be another Mac system upgrade until the middle of 2013. After all, this was all in keeping with the “plan,” that new versions of OS […]

Apple continues to defy conventional wisdom. On Thursday morning, just when Mac users were still getting accustomed to OS 10.7 Lion, Apple unleashed yet another cat, OS 10.8 Mountain Lion. But unlike previous versions of Mac OS X — which is now officially OS X (Mac is not in the versioning or branding of the […]

All right, Steve Jobs did show up at this year’s WWDC keynote, but VP Phil Schiller and the rest of the crew did the heavy lifting — at least for the first two parts of the presentation. But let’s get this little nugget out of the way first: Just last week, the Tech Night Owl […]

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 […]