When I wrote yesterday’s column, I really expected that Apple would wait until the next beta release of macOS Sierra and iOS 10 to make the public betas available. Well, they didn’t. They came out on July 7th, as hundreds of thousands of people were able to download prerelease versions of the two operating systems. While these releases, […]

You just know that Apple can’t catch a break. If new products have lots of new features, we’ll it’s too many. There will be lots of bugs, and customers will face plenty of aggravation as a result. But if it appears that things haven’t changed that much, Apple is criticized for having lost its innovation mojo. So we […]

The crystal ball readers and rumor sites had a big day Monday when Apple CEO Tim Cook and crew delivered the WWDC keynote. Of of the things they predicted will come to pass, and there were a some added goodies that are welcome if not earth-shattering.. One prediction that failed was the hope for new hardware. Refreshed […]

There seems to be a meme playing out in the media in recent weeks that Apple updates gear and operating systems too often. This feeling is supported by the fact that many product refreshes, particularly Macs, are quite minor and barely discernible. The last iOS and OS X (or whatever it’ll be called next week) […]