It’s no secret that the first releases of OS X, starting with the Public Beta in 2000, were shaky. Your Mac suffered from subpar performance, even on the most powerful Power Macs of the time, missing features, and more crashes than you had the right to expect. After all, this was Unix, the industrial strength […]

When does a Retina display hit critical mass? Well, Apple and other smartphone makers have been selling mobile gear with Retina displays, meaning you can’t see the individual pixels at normal viewing distances, for several years. The price of your iPhone, or iPad, never changed. You just got more value for the same money. To […]

Although the news had been predicted by mainstream news organizations, the announcement that Apple would be moving Macs to Intel processors at the 2005 WWDC came as a shock. For years, Apple had been touting the superior performance of the PowerPC chips, so why the turnaround? Was Apple betraying Mac users? The truth was straightforward […]

You just know that Apple’s marketing machine has been in full force trying to convince you that the Apple Watch is absolutely amazing, about to take over an industry that has, so far, not gone very far. Reviews present a more nuanced view. It’s a fashionable, trendsetting gadget, but somewhat rough about the edges. Understand that I […]