I suppose we ought to pity those who have been around the tech universe for a long, long time, such as yours truly. I mean, some of the things we accepted as state-of-the-art in those days, such as 800K floppy disks and 100MB hard drives, seem downright primitive today. Please don’t get me started about […]

I started the year with modest expectations about what might happen in the tech industry. You see, I am pretty satisfied with what I have, and so I don’t hang on every letter of speculation about, for example, the insanely great things that might be happening over at Apple Inc. Oh yes, at the beginning […]

For a long, long time now, you’ve been told that Apple designs the best user interfaces. They “just work,” and the learning curve — such as it is — is relatively short. Of course, that doesn’t explain the consistent sales of “Dummies” books about various and sundry Apple products through the years, but compared to […]

In recent weeks, I’ve seen an active discussion on this site about whether Apple should be producing a stripped-down computer, shorn of a few features to keep the price down. The activity has been pro and con, as some of you feel that you don’t want to pay for such “frills” as AirPort, Bluetooth, a […]