I’ve made no secret of the fact that I can see some benefits in a subscription-based music service. Although I want to own my tunes, being able to sample entire tracks makes it easier to decide what to buy. Like most of you, I do not like buying whole albums, for example, only to find […]

All right, let’s face it: Apple is hot stuff. The stock price is soaring once again, and Wall Street is expecting, well, miracles. It’s not just the prospect that iPod sales will total 37 million as of the end of this quarter, if sales go as predicted. It also means that more people out there […]

Can you imagine what might have happened as Apple prepared to introduce its new music products last week? Just days before the event, someone knocks at the door of the CEO’s office and asks Steve Jobs to postpone the press briefing. “Why?” he growls, and he’s told that both the Mac and Windows versions of […]

When Apple began filing lawsuits against some of the Mac rumor sites, you began to wonder if their days were numbered. I started to think what may daily online routine would be like if people were afraid to speculate about future iPods and Mac products fearing they might get it right and face the wrath […]