Several recent rumors have the Apple watchers scrambling to figure out what’s going on. As usual, some of the stories arose over patent filings, even though the process of securing intellectual property rights doesn’t actually guarantee that you’ll ever see a real product featuring that technology. One curiosity spoke of what you might want to […]

If you think the media can sometimes be too harsh on Apple, spend a little time with a long-time Mac user, and you will hear a surprising amount of complaints. No matter that they are intensely loyal to most anything with an Apple logo on it. When it comes to the shortcomings of any particular […]

It makes plenty of sense for Apple to want to unify the Mac OS as much as possible. Someone moving from an iPhone or iPad to MacBook or iMac ought to be able to adapt without serious retraining. Or at least that’s the theory. So in the first glimmers of a working Mac OS 10.7, […]

I have to tell you, my friends, that I do not pretend to be expert at prognostication, certainly not when it comes to assessing Apple’s possible future behavior. So when I read about the next Apple “Back to the Mac” media event, scheduled on Wednesday, October 20 (my late father’s birthday, I might add), I […]