For the longest time, Apple has maintained that Macs and iOS gear — iPhones and the iPads — are meant to be separate gadgets. Operating systems, related to one another at the core, are otherwise quite different. Macs are meant to be managed via keyboard and mouse, while iPhones and iPads use touchscreens; well, except […]

One of the major arguments made against Google is that, to them, you are the product. That means they expect you to endure frequent ads and perhaps click on a few (maybe buy something) to generate cash. That’s a price for a free online service, because someone has to pay the bills. So the bills […]

So I read an article this week from an Apple fan site that was telling me that Sierra is just wonderful, more or less. But in reading it, I actually felt disappointed at the list of all those terrific features, since most of what was actually shown didn’t strike me as so impressive. If Apple limited its presentation […]

As you know, when you set up your iCloud account, you have a stingy 5GB of free storage. If you want more, you have to pay for it. Now the prices are competitive. For 99 cents you can have 50GB. Higher tiers include $2.99 a month for 200GB, $9.99 a month for 1TB, and $19.99 […]