It’s easy to be lazy in the news business, and hard to be fair. Consider how tech writers treated Apple over the years; well, most of them at any rate. Apple was “beleaguered,”  only had a tiny percentage of the PC market, and couldn’t possibly survive. When the name Microsoft came up, you were told […]

The security companies are encouraged. Windows users are hoping someone else will feel the pain, but in the end it seems the latest Mac virus threat is just another non-starter. Just the other day, Symantec delivered the news of still another one of those “proof of concept” viruses that seem to make headlines, but never […]

They sometimes say that the best salesperson believes their own pitch, so maybe it is true that when Steve Jobs first touted the Mac as a computing appliance, he believed it too. Alas, the first time a Mac crashed, the famed “reality distortion field” was breeched. Everything went downhill from there. For me, the most […]

When it comes to the little corner of the world we occupy, we live in strange times. You and I have become accustomed to the fact that Macs are considered niche products, ignored by most PC buyers, but incredibly popular when it comes to getting a lot of great press. But there’s a strong feeling […]