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    About an Apple Report Card

    January 25th, 2018

    I don’t know how important this is to anyone, unless you’re a devoted Apple watcher. But it’s worth a read. So Jason Snell of Six Colors, a former editor for Macworld, ran a survey involving a few dozen tech journalists, developers and podcasters, judging the worth of Apple products and services for 2017. It’s roughly, […]


    Apple in the Crosshairs

    January 9th, 2018

    Not all of the coverage Apple has received in the past few months has been favorable; far from it. At a time when it no doubt would have preferred that we all speak in glowing terms about the iPhone 8, the iPhone X and the iMac Pro, the discussion occasionally went off the rails in […]


    A Reality Check About Throttlegate

    January 3rd, 2018

    Apple found itself in the thick of it when it quietly released an update, iOS 10.2.1, designed to fix a sudden shutdown problem on some iPhones. This was separate from a warranty repair program in which such an issue was caused by a battery defect on the iPhone 6s in which the battery was replaced […]


    Newsletter Issue #944: A Reality Check About the Most Expensive Mac

    January 1st, 2018

    When the original Bondi blue iMac appeared in the summer of 1998, I would not have predicted where the product would go in the next 19 years. Not even close. At first, the iMac was marketed as a relatively low cost ($1,299) personal computer using repurposed PowerBook parts powering a 15-inch CRT display. At the […]