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    Yosemite and Continuity: The Half a Loaf Report

    October 22nd, 2014

    One of the most significant features of Yosemite is Continuity, a proper and efficient way for a Mac to talk to another Mac, or to an iOS device. This is the sort of integration that you can’t find at Google, Microsoft or Samsung. The critics might regard this is a scheme on Apple’s part to perpetrate the […]


    A Slice of Silliness

    August 21st, 2014

    So there’s a commentary from a blogger at a certain well-known tech site suggesting that Apple needs to compete with the — take a deep breath — Chrome-book, Google’s no-frills OS. The what? Yes, I am quite serious. The article in question, for which I will not provide the link for obvious reasons, appears to […]


    Calling Out Industry Analyst Failures

    August 15th, 2014

    As most of you know, IDC is a major industry analyst. The company is also a division of IDG Group, which also brings you, among other properties, Macworld magazine and the Macworld | iWorld Expo. So you sort of expect that IDC would be fair to Apple. But expectations are sometimes not met. So you have […]


    New Mac Updates: Worth the Bother?

    July 31st, 2014

    Apple is between a rock and a hard place and it’s all Intel’s fault. Yes, it was the right thing to cast its lot with Intel when PowerPC processor development stalled. The Mac was falling behind Windows PCs, and the promised G5 chip for note-books never arrived. And I haven’t begun to mention those Power […]