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    I Go to See 4K TV — Again!

    May 6th, 2014

    The high-definition TV revolution resulted in tens and tens of millions of you buying new sets. As advertised, they delivered often superb widescreen pictures, assuming you fed it HD content. That was a good thing, for customers at any rate. But for manufacturers, it meant that these customers were off the market for five to ten […]


    What’s in a Name? The New iPad Conundrum

    March 9th, 2012

    So nearly all of the expectations about the third generation iPad essentially came to pass. The most significant new feature is the Retina Display, followed, perhaps, by LTE support, as if that’ll make much of a difference since most iPad users aren’t apt to want to download huge files; you’d be streaming (rather than downloading) […]


    Can You Live Without a Retina Display?

    April 27th, 2011

    In recent years, there have been rumors that Apple has been experimenting with resolution independence in Mac OS X. This would mean that images and text would scale to whatever screen size and/or resolution your Mac is using without degrading image quality. Of course doing such a thing in the print medium is old news. […]


    Newsletter #478 Preview: Taking the Mac Seriously After 25 Years

    January 25th, 2009

    You didn’t hear anything about it at Macworld Expo, at least from the mouths of Philip Schiller or any other Apple employee. During last week’s session with financial analysts, Apple’s executives weren’t even asked the question, and they felt no need to volunteer a response. Indeed, the rest of the world is nevertheless observing the […]