The launch of Mac OS X as a Public Beta in the fall of 2000 signified a sea change for Mac users. Coming four years after the purchase of NeXT, it represented the vindication of that deal, which also meant the return of Steve Jobs to Apple. Here it was, the long-delayed industrial strength replacement for the […]

I am writing this post only a few hours after installing the iOS 9.0.2 update on my iPhones and Barbara’s iPad. Nothing untoward has occurred so far. For some it ends there after you undergo a roughly 15 or 30 minute download and installation process. Last week’s iOS 9.0.1 update had a handful of fixes that […]

Last week, Apple announced that some eleven million people had signed up for the 90-day free trial of Apple Music. Depending on your point of view and expectations, that was either good, or not-so-good, for the fledgling subscription music service. Apple treated the news as something significant, that 1.4% of the estimated 800 million iTunes […]

Some of us have been extremely close to Apple. Not so much being acquainted with the people there, although some of us are. It’s about being loyal to Apple gear for a number of years. I can tell you that it hasn’t always been a cake walk. For years, I was regarded as the odd […]