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    Newsletter Issue #876 — Apple and Spin Control: Courage My Eye!

    September 12th, 2016

    If you can believe Apple’s corporate spin machine, it took “courage” to ditch the 3.5mm headphone jack, a venerable connection port that has been in use in one form or another since the 1950s. On the surface, this seems to be true. Beginning with the 1998 Bondi Blue iMac, Apple began to ditch legacy ports […]


    Apple and the Missing Headphone Jack Controversy

    September 9th, 2016

    You would think that Apple’s periodic decisions to ditch or change ports on their gear would be old hat by now. But when leaks about the iPhone 7 emerged, two issues arose, and one just went way beyond the usual expectations about a the new model. So the case design was going to be essentially the […]


    iPhone 7: Minor Updates My —

    September 8th, 2016

    If you want to know just what Apple did at Wednesday’s media event, you might look check out one of the tech or mainstream news sites for the details. You would expect a straightforward presentation of the new features for the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2, how they stand compared to earlier models, […]


    The Anti-iPhone Chatter Continues

    September 6th, 2016

    I’m writing this two days before Apple is expected to take the wraps off the next iPhone, and you’ll read it a day before. But the discussion is already spinning towards its successor. in fact, there are a number of online complaints that the iPhone 7 won’t be such a big deal, that you might as well […]