Except for the members of the media who received copies of Mountain Lion ahead of the Thursday launch, few suspected that Apple would get out another Mac OS X upgrade so quickly. After all, to some at any rate, Lion still needs work. Why would Apple rush headlong into completing a successor? Well, Apple isn’t […]

Apple continues to defy conventional wisdom. On Thursday morning, just when Mac users were still getting accustomed to OS 10.7 Lion, Apple unleashed yet another cat, OS 10.8 Mountain Lion. But unlike previous versions of Mac OS X — which is now officially OS X (Mac is not in the versioning or branding of the […]

This week, one of the cable TV news outlets ran a short story about Apple suing Samsung once again over patent issues. But it was just the latest of many legal skirmishes that have been going on almost since the first iPhone debuted. Sometimes you wonder if any of these companies actually have time to sell […]

Knowing that Apple’s earnings for the last financial quarter will be posted hours after this article is published, I won’t hazard a guess as to how the numbers will turn out. Instead I’m going to look a bit closer at the products and services you might see from Apple over the coming year. But understand […]