Paranoia strikes deep in today’s society. Governments aren’t believed, and there is a conspiracy theory behind almost everything. Any significant world event has multiple meanings, and there is always the feeling we aren’t being told everything. Certainly profit-making corporations aren’t to be believed. The message, whatever it might be, is designed to entice you to […]

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 […]

After quite a run, and ahead of a 7-to-1 stock split, Apple’s stock price had declined slightly before the WWDC keynote on Monday. I suppose this was to be expected. The event was presaged with optimism, skepticism and silly claims about what the company must do to survive. Some weeks back, for example, one online pundit who […]

As we get closer to the expected release of the next iPhone, more and more mockups and raw case parts are emerging online. They are all allegedly sourced from the supply chain, and are presented, with or without comment, on various sites, particularly those that truck in Apple rumors. By and large, they fit into […]