When you consider possible release dates for new Apple products, it’s easy — and perhaps lazy — to just consider the past. A new Intel chip family arrives and within weeks there will be new Macs, most of the time. This year, by the way, Intel’s new chip family will be late, so Apple so […]

Apple is great about setting expectations. So recent OS X releases have each had over 200 new features. Why not 150? Why not 300? Well, evidently 200 sends the appropriate marketing message, although the numbers might be fudged just a little bit. Certainly, if you look at the full feature sets of Lion and Mountain […]

When Apple’s Craig Federighi gave a relatively short but highly-praised demonstration of OS X Mavericks at this week’s WWDC, I had to ask, “Is that all there is?” You see, Apple has traditionally promised over 200 new features with recent OS X upgrades. Here there are a few dozen at most, including the backend features, […]

In releasing an iPhone and iPad app for the forthcoming WWDC, Apple may be offering a front and center preview of the new “flatter” interface for iOS 7 touted in recent press speculations. At least if you can regard this new app as a harbinger of things to come very, very soon. By the way, […]