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    Apple and the Staggered Apple Music Rollout

    July 1st, 2015

    So in theory Apple Music debuted at 9:00 AM Pacific time in the U.S. In theory, but not for everyone. If you wanted to use the new subscription music service on your Mac or PC, you needed iTunes 12.2. But that release didn’t make its presence known until after 3:00 PM Pacific time, sporting a much […]


    Visiting Apple Conspiracy Theories

    June 25th, 2015

    Here’s one that I’ve more or less given a bit of tacit support to. Apple Music was announced at the WWDC and, a little over a week before its debut, one of the top-selling musical artists on the planet complained. Why? Well, it seems that Apple opted not to pay royalties during the 90-day free trial, while […]


    Macs — Forever!

    June 18th, 2015

    From the time that Michael Dell first claimed that Apple should shut down the company and return the money to investors, the critics have been claiming our favorite fruit company ought to be dead and buried. Or it will be shortly. Even when sales and profits hit record levels, it wasn’t taken seriously by some. It […]


    The iPad and Productivity

    June 16th, 2015

    For many of you, the iPad is mostly a consumption device, or screen. You use it to watch movies, read books. Productivity is limited to browsing and checking your email, Face-book and Twitter connections. While there are serious level productivity apps available for the platform, including Apple’s Pages and Microsoft Word, the iPad falls down […]