You might have expected this. Apple’s habitual critics were tripping over themselves attempting to paint the iPhone X — even when it was referred to mistakenly as the iPhone 8 — as a huge failure in the making. At first it was about the problems Apple allegedly encountered in designing the thing, and the critics […]

Without doubt the usual offenders among Apple critics are joyfully reporting about a serious security flaw that reared its ugly head in macOS High Sierra 10.3.1. It was a foolish mistake, the sort of mistake that might cause management to find the offenders and take some serious action. No, I’m not suggesting they should be […]

It’s very easy for an outsider to say how a huge multinational corporation should do business. There are no consequences unless that corporation chooses to take their advice. Even then, it’s still their fault for being so foolish. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with making suggestions about what a company can do to earn more […]

For the longest time, Apple has maintained that Macs and iOS gear — iPhones and the iPads — are meant to be separate gadgets. Operating systems, related to one another at the core, are otherwise quite different. Macs are meant to be managed via keyboard and mouse, while iPhones and iPads use touchscreens; well, except […]