As Apple patches serious long-standing CPU bugs on its iOS, tvOS and macOS gear, they claim you shouldn’t notice any performance dip. Well, maybe a little in Safari, where, after installing the Spectre fix, Apple reported that one web benchmark was reduced by 2.5%. But you can get on with your life as Apple continues […]

The silly things I read about Apple or an Apple product boggle the mind. The other day, I ran across a perfectly absurd piece suggesting there was something harmful or nasty about Apple’s iWork software. I’m waiting for the mind to boggle! Now in the real world, Apple has been producing consumer-level productivity suites for years. It […]

Now despite the fact that Mac sales are stable, and the iPhone is growing again, the iPad has remained a drag on Apple’s numbers. Profits are surely high, but sales keep dropping, quarter after quarter, after reaching a peak in 2013. The main question is why? Were iPads disappointing to all those millions of people […]

What’s an iPad anyway? Well, if you paid attention to what the critics said, when it was first released in 2010, it was little more than an overgrown iPod touch. Both ran iOS, but you can also buy a version of the iPad that can access cellular data for an online connection. Over the past six […]