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    Apple’s Throttlegate Mea Culpa

    December 29th, 2017

    It’s a rare thing for a major company to admit error. Clearly Apple has come to realize it has a growing problem on its hands with the admission about throttling iPhone performance when batteries are deteriorating. Indeed, with class action lawsuits and, most recently, a crime lawsuit in France over alleged planned obsolescence, which is […]


    The Strange Case of the iPhone and Throttlegate

    December 26th, 2017

    Sometimes saying too little is a bad idea, and Apple may come to realize that with its latest so-called scandal. It all started when some people discovered that their somewhat older iPhones were running much slower, something readily confirmed with benchmark tests. Over the years, Apple has been accused of unjustly making older gear obsolete, […]


    A New Slant on Universal Apps?

    December 22nd, 2017

    Many of you have heard of the term “fat binaries,” or “universal apps,” in which the code will work on more than a single platform or product. It may even offer a different look and feel depending on the needs of that product. So when Apple went to Intel CPUs beginning in 2006, they embedded […]


    The Long Road to a 4K TV Set!

    December 21st, 2017

    I purchased my last TV set in 2012. Our 50-inch Panasonic plasma was showing its age, and it was time to find a replacement. Flush with some cash from an unexpected ad deal, I purchased a 55-inch VIZIO E-Series Full-Array Smart TV set. Picture quality was quite good for a relatively low-cost LCD panel of […]