Several years ago, during one of their quarterly conference calls with financial analysts, Apple again dismissed the possibility that they’d ever build a cheap Mac. The reason, often stated, is that they didn’t want to build a crappy Mac. Well, it is true that, in the 1990s when Apple couldn’t do anything right (more or […]

It’s hard to believe how many product lines used to bear the Apple logo — or at least the rainbow-colored version that was in vogue in the last century. The original PostScript laser printers, known under the collective moniker of LaserWriter, came from Apple, although the guts of the early versions were actually built by […]

Although Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at least pretend in public to have a friendly relationship of several decades, you know that Apple and Microsoft have been fierce competitors for years. Of course, in the business world, you may have to make a deal with the devil to survive. So, indeed, Apple has also worked […]

Before Microsoft pulled a few notorious stunts to dominate the browsing world, which got the attention of antitrust regulators, there was Netscape. But over time, it grew fat and buggy, which is something you’re apt to blame Microsoft for. In those days, forgetting the dirty tricks, the original Internet Explorer, particularly on the Mac, was […]