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    Returning to the Mac

    October 13th, 2011

    If you’ve read the blogs, online news sites, or even your daily paper, you might believe that Apple builds nothing but iPhones and iPads. The media wonders whether the iPhone 4s, with the same exterior as the iPhone 4, will succeed despite being a minor upgrade, even though the nature of the upgrade is quite […]


    Newsletter Issue #600: The WWDC Talk Intensifies

    May 30th, 2011

    Up till recently, the common meme had it that Apple would devote the next Worldwide Developer’s Conference, scheduled for June 6-10 this year in San Francisco, to touting the latest and greatest Mac OS and iOS technologies. So you’d get an update about the status of Mac OS X Lion, and iOS 5 would likely […]


    Newsletter Issue #579: Mac Virus Fear Mongers Are Up to Their Usual Tricks

    January 3rd, 2011

    In one of this cute and funny Mac versus PC ads, which are sadly no longer being produced, the Mac personification, as portrayed by actor Justin Long, reminded the PC (as portrayed by John Hodgman), that there are over 100,000 Windows viruses, but not on the Mac. Now this particular phrase became controversial, because you […]


    Do You Think You Can Run Apple Better than Steve Jobs?

    December 3rd, 2010

    This is likely an exceedingly silly question, but when you read what some of the armchair Apple critics spout on a far too regular basis, you’d think they have the gall to imagine themselves in the CEO office supplanting Steve Jobs and his executive team, doing a far better job. That may seem a stretch, […]