In the fall of 1989, I received a floppy disk in the mail, along with material promoting a new online service. At the time, I was enduring the high prices of CompuServe, since it was the best game in town, but I was sorely tempted by the lower price offered by America Online, then a […]

The other day, I wrote to an online columnist who, in a supreme fit of ignorance, suggested that you should hold off purchasing new Macs until the new models with Intel chips appear. Since I once worked for the same company he did, I thought he’d have the courtesy to respond, but I wasn’t surprised […]

Now I’m not going to suggest that Apple planted those stories about the switch to Intel processors. Oh well, I’ve said it. In any case, when Steve Jobs let the cat the rest of the way out of the bag, some of the technology pundits managed, as usual, to screw up the facts about the […]

Just a few days after the historic announcement that Apple was switching to Intel processors, it appears some technology pundits still can’t their stories correct. Or maybe, having nothing to write about, they might as well create stories from whole cloth that are filled with fear, uncertainty and doubt. Take, for example, the assumption that […]