When The New York Times claimed, in that controversial hit piece on Tim Cook, that he took over after the death of Steve Jobs, I realized the writers were out of touch. And that was before reading much else. It’s not that they haven’t covered Apple for years, but they could hardly fail to notice […]

To some, Apple’s new announcements at the WWDC represented a coming of age for the company under the leadership of Tim Cook. It’s certainly more open, considering that developers have a little more freedom to talk about prerelease software. So now they can actually discuss what they’re doing with outsiders, although they aren’t able to actually […]

Implicit in the WWDC keynote this week is Apple’s effort to reduce reliance on Google for search, and to answer the complaints about the lack of features by those who have adopted the Android platform. The most blatant example of the former was putting Bing search in Spotlight. The trend had started with Siri, and it’s […]

One important feature of OS X Mavericks was the list of system requirements. It ran on the same hardware as OS X Mountain Lion, and evidently with good performance overall. I hadn’t really heard much in the way of complaints about OS 10.9 operating slug-like on someone’s vintage Mac, though I can see where the boundaries […]