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    Can You Believe Third-Party Apple Sales Estimates?

    February 18th, 2009

    Just this week, the estimates came out about how well Apple did in January. According to Piper Jaffray, which has been frequently known to get their figures wrong, Apple is on track to sell between 2 million and 2.2 million Macs for the first three months of 2009, compared to 2.3 million for the same period […]


    Does Apple Prefer Fair Weather Friends?

    January 29th, 2009

    You know that Apple clearly has no interest in honoring the 25th anniversary of the Mac. The event wasn’t mentioned during Philip Schiller’s keynote at Macworld Expo, nor in the recent quarterly financial conference with industry analysts. The latest ads don’t harken back to the original 1984 commercial that attracted so much attention at the […]


    Is There a Way to Simplify the Personal Computer?

    January 27th, 2009

    As I’ve said on many occasions, most of what you and I do these days on our Macs harkens back to 1984, when the first all-in-one Apple Macintosh appeared. As a matter of fact, this reminds me of the time I wrote a book about Mac OS X, back in 2001, where I presented screen […]


    Is it Necessary to Revisit the Mac Malware Equation?

    January 26th, 2009

    In recent days, there have been reports of new Mac Trojan Horse threats, and you have to wonder whether Apple’s continued growth will come at the expense of making the platform a serious target for Internet criminals. Or at least that’s what the tech media has been saying for several years now, although it hasn’t […]