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    Newsletter Issue #893: Ten Years of iPhones: The Night Owl Looks Back

    January 9th, 2017

    At an age where some might become a little forgetful, I remember it well: Steve Jobs taking the stage and announcing what ended up being the successor to the iPod, which offered your music library in your pocket. The iPhone also offered the Internet in your pocket; essentially a tiny personal computer masquerading as a […]


    Newsletter Issue #892: Apple — Waiting for Innovation?

    January 2nd, 2017

    The media is busy tripping over themselves to pronounce 2016 as a bad year for Apple. Supposedly they fell short on the innovation front. One major national daily newspaper awarded a mediocre B- rating as a result. Others were even less disposed towards Apple’s abilities to deliver the goods. While there are legitimate reasons to […]


    The Cooling of Upgrade Fever

    December 28th, 2016

    Not so many years ago, there was good reason to upgrade your tech gear fairly often. Each year brought major performance and feature improvements. If you had the cash, you could revel in the glory of all those enhancements. If you hung onto a device for even a few years, you may have felt you […]


    Newsletter Issue #891: Apple and Consumer Reports — Again

    December 26th, 2016

    Do you remember the “bendgate” scandal? Perhaps not, because it was never a scandal, but some wiseacre got the bright idea to post a video on YouTube showing how “easy” it was to bend an iPhone 6 Plus. That someone was willing to seriously damage one’s expensive smartphone seemed crazy enough, unless, of course, the […]