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    Newsletter #478 Preview: Taking the Mac Seriously After 25 Years

    January 25th, 2009

    You didn’t hear anything about it at Macworld Expo, at least from the mouths of Philip Schiller or any other Apple employee. During last week’s session with financial analysts, Apple’s executives weren’t even asked the question, and they felt no need to volunteer a response. Indeed, the rest of the world is nevertheless observing the […]


    Apple Might Be Faring Better Than Expected

    January 20th, 2009

    For a company that seems a little down in the dumps these days, this week’s report on Apple Inc.’s quarterly financials is still eagerly awaited with both trepidation and anticipation. Probably with equal doses of both. The cloud hanging over the company’s stock price is, of course, the health of CEO Steve Jobs and ongoing […]


    Of Microsoft and the European Union

    January 19th, 2009

    It appears that Microsoft’s worst nightmare may not be Apple, but the European Union. Their most recent action, involving a Statement of Objection is, as others have observed, a throwback to the browser wars of the 1990s, where Internet Explorer decimated Netscape. Sure, Microsoft exploited its huge share of the PC market to trounce the competition […]


    Mac OS 10.5.6 Update Arrives with Weird Installation Glitches

    December 16th, 2008

    So a client calls me to set up his spanking new MacBook, an operation that I took to be utterly routine, having done that sort of thing for years with different Macs. Arriving at his home, I realized I had forgotten to take my FireWire cable — he had purchased the white MacBook entry-level model, […]