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 […]

Consider that thousands of applications are available for you to download from the App Store. Many are free, and most others fairly cheap. In fact, a surprising number of titles can be had for less than $5.00, but lots of new developers are prospering despite the questionable state of the world economy. However, there are […]

Although most of the comments about Apple’s plans for enterprise support and third-party development for the iPhone and iPod touch strike me as essentially positive, there are certainly serious questions as to how it’ll all play out. Obviously, we won’t know all the answers until the iPhone 2.0 firmware is available in June (assuming it […]

Up till now, Apple Inc. has been the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to digital music, which means they are also the gatekeeper to the most-used digital rights management technology for legal downloads on the planet. What this means is that lots of competitors and even some European countries are complaining that Apple has locked […]