It’s not unusual to think that there’s never been a Mac OS feature that Microsoft didn’t try to imitate. Of course, this is not to say that Apple is above cribbing a few features from others when it’s appropriate. Take the the Mac’s Help menu or, for that matter, the application switching technique, both of […]

When Bill Gates appeared to a round of boos and catcalls on a satellite feed during a Macworld Expo keynote some years ago, you wondered why Steve Jobs was so readily conceding the operating system wars. Jobs went on to state that, for Apple to succeed, Microsoft didn’t have to lose. You’d think he was […]

Back in July, the iPhone 3G, newly-released, seemed to be a buggy mess to many of the early adopters. Apps crashed constantly, so they say, and people couldn’t sustain decent voice connections or speedy broadband access. You had to wonder whether Apple had lost its mojo in its drive to push new products out the […]

It’s very easy to sell a Mac to the skeptic when things function normally, and to be frank, they usually do. Indeed, I’ve also done pretty well in making that occasional deal to sell my old hardware to a local buyer. However, on a rare occasion things don’t always work predictably. Some years back, for […]