All right, you know the score. Apple blasted earnings estimates out of the water last quarter with sales of $5.7 billion, which included 14 million iPods and one-and-a-quarter million Macs. Both were ahead of the previous year, although the increase in computer sales was relatively modest. But in a universe where expectations of Apple sales […]

Macworld Expo 2006 is notable not just for what appeared, but what didn’t. Although iPods were discussed at the beginning of the Steve Jobs keynote, it was largely in the context of how how Apple sold and how much it earned last quarter. Of course if you were lucky enough to get an iPod during […]

As I prepared myself for the possibilities of Apple’s new products, I rated the odds of seeing a demonstration of Apple’s next OS, Leopard, a 50/50 rating. Now maybe Jobs didn’t want to muddy the waters with too much material, or wasn’t far enough along to demonstrate anything. I suppose there’s more than enough time […]

Well, he did it again. Steve Jobs went and pulled a fast one on the media analysts and rumor sites. Yes, two Mac models with Intel processors were introduced, but they weren’t quite the ones many expected. That’s either good or bad, depending on whether a budget-priced Mac was in your sights. Take the iMac. […]