Shortly before I began to write this column, I saw a TV ad for the new MacBook Pro. The only memorable part was the flashy deomonstration of the joys of the Touch Bar, and it is the tentpole feature of the new notebooks. The rest isn’t quite so important. It doesn’t matter that it’s thinner […]

You can say the launch of an all-new Apple gadget may at times be troublesome. While some of you may feel that Apple’s quality control has taken a nosedive in recent years — and you want to blame Tim Cook for it — that’s not quite true. Every so often a new Apple device arrives that […]

The carping about the perceived lapses in the Late 2016 MacBook Pro won’t end. I would have thought that complaining about the lack of a 32GB option, the high price, and hopes for more performance and battery life, would die down after a while. But they haven’t, and there are other issues that are getting […]

There’s a general perception that the Apple Watch hasn’t exactly taken off in a big way, at least not yet. I’ve never seen anyone wearing one. Or at least it wasn’t noticeable, not that I’ve gone out of my way to look. In any case, IDC, part of the International Data Group that used to […]