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    The Media May Be Figuring Out the Shortcomings of those Killer Products

    October 1st, 2010

    There’s a report this week in Fortune that reveals something most of you have realized by now. Just because a competing product is announced, that doesn’t prove that product is any good, or has sales potential. So, of all those headlines about the coming onslaught of iPad killers, few offer a responsible analysis of the […]


    So Microsoft is the Good Guy Now?

    September 16th, 2010

    It comes as no surprise that, when the head of a computer company has been portrayed in a movie or TV show, he’s apt to resemble Bill Gates, a nerdy caricature with the tousled hair who engages in evil behavior on a computer to cause havoc. I rather suspect that, when the U.S. Department of […]


    Update! The iOS 4.0.1 Report

    July 16th, 2010

    When someone predicted Apple would release that highly-anticipated fixer-upper Thursday for at least some antenna-related issues on the latest and greatest iPhone, I was skeptical. How could anyone outside of Apple possibly know. Yet a Greek-language site, iPhone Hellas, had it right on, all the way. Now unless I’m missing something, the only advertised fix […]


    The iOS 4 Report: Sometimes it Pays to Start Over

    July 5th, 2010

    I’ve used iOS 4 on my iPhone 3GS since Day One of the official release. For the most part, the experience has been essentially as I expected after examining the material from Apple’s hype machine. That is a good thing, although there are some rough edges. Aside from the minor interface quibbles, my biggest problem […]