I suppose Steve Jobs is responsible. When he likened the PC to a truck and mobile computing gadgets, such as the iPad and iPhone, to a car, you had to think that he was reading the tea leaves of what the industry would be like in a few years. Add to that the fact that […]

I read an interesting article from the Daring Fireball’s John Gruber in a recent issue of Macworld that, better than most any other opinion piece, appears to accurately nail Apple’s long range goals. In that article, Gruber pointed out that each Apple hardware or software update appears, at best, to be a minor change from […]

When first announcing Snow Leopard, Apple stated that they had decided to take a break from snazzy new features, and concentrate on the OS plumbing instead. So you had Grand Central Dispatch, to help with app multithreading, OpenCL, to offload processing chores to graphics chips, enhanced 64-bit support and lots more. The number of visible […]

In the wake of a WWDC devoid of Mac-related announcements, beyond a press release to introduce Safari 5 for Mac and Windows, some ill-informed pundits have again declared the Mac dead and buried. This is the sort of thing they do to fill blogs and incorporate misguided analyst comments, without bothering to see what’s really […]