Apple has received its share of attacks this year, and some of it appears to be deserved. But I won’t dwell on the possibilities except for the device that used to be its most important product — the Mac. Up until the past year, you could usually depend on annual product refreshes. The usual setup was to […]

Over the years, a slew of alleged journalists and bloggers have written stuff about Apple that just isn’t true, or is partly true but quickly goes off the rails. Time and time again, their pronouncements are regularly refuted by a variety of columnists. Macworld’s mythical crypto-creature, “Macalope,” writes columns three times a week demonstrating when […]

Apple’s recent decisions raise the question about what they might give up on next? So there are no more Thunderbolt displays — or any displays with the Apple brand — and Apple has worked with LG to produce 4K and 5K displays with the proper features to support the new MacBook Pros and other gear. In recent […]

When Apple moved to large display iPhones, they routinely kept an older four-inch model in stock. In large part, this was to offer an alternative for people who couldn’t afford the flagship versions, although it’s also true that some people never liked the larger handsets. Regardless, Apple evidently didn’t take the smaller form factor seriously. It […]