As some of you know, I came to the Mac via prepress. By night, I labored as a freelance writer, and by day, and sometimes into the evening, I worked as a typographer in New York City. While the jobs changed, for some curious reason, I always found employment within a few blocks of an […]

From the time that Michael Dell first claimed that Apple should shut down the company and return the money to investors, the critics have been claiming our favorite fruit company ought to be dead and buried. Or it will be shortly. Even when sales and profits hit record levels, it wasn’t taken seriously by some. It […]

So maybe Wall Street isn’t terribly impressed with the announcements at Apple’s WWDC. But that doesn’t mean nothing significant was offered. It happens to be the reverse. As expected, Apple is taking the Snow Leopard route with El Capitan and iOS 9 offering up operating system upgrades that focus on improvements in user experience and […]

If you were hoping to learn about Apple’s rumored subscription TV service, or the next Apple TV during the WWDC, you’ll have to keep waiting. Apple had other priorities. As predicted in the rumor sites, it was very much about enhancing the reliability and performance of OS X and iOS, with fewer gee-whiz features. Apple […]