When Steve Jobs underwent surgery for a rare form of pancreatic cancer last summer, one serious question reared its ugly head: What will Apple do when Steve Jobs is gone? I’m not assuming he’s not long for this world. He could, for example, simply retire, and why isn’t important. Regardless of the reason, what is […]

A few days before Tiger was released, I got a call from a local physician asking if his early generation iMac could run 10.4. “Does it have built-in FireWire,” I asked, and he had to check. “No,” he said sadly, understanding the implications, that it was time to retire that faithful computer. Sure, that doctor […]

Up until that rumor explosion in December, some things were absolutely certain about Apple. For one thing, Steve Jobs would never allow the company to sell a cheap Mac or a cheap iPod. There was no profit in it, and it was better to get large profit margins and remain a boutique computer company. This […]