So the news comes down this week that Adobe has at last updated Flash for the Mac to bring it closer in alignment to the Windows version at least in one key respect. There’s now limited support for H.264 hardware acceleration, but you have to wonder why it took them so long to get it […]

I read an interesting article from the Daring Fireball’s John Gruber in a recent issue of Macworld that, better than most any other opinion piece, appears to accurately nail Apple’s long range goals. In that article, Gruber pointed out that each Apple hardware or software update appears, at best, to be a minor change from […]

I read a headline today, referring to iPad owners as people who are somehow “shackled” to Apple’s hardware/software ecosystem. It conveyed the image of slaves sitting in the bowels of an ancient ship, chained to their seats and forced to manage the oars used to propel the vessel. Sometimes the stories I read about Apple […]

As you know, Apple seeded iPads to a select few tech journalists in recent weeks. Two days before the product’s official availability at the Apple Store and Best Buy, the fruit of those marketing efforts paid off, in the form of highly favorable reviews that have been plastered all over the Internet. Now to be […]