You can imagine the scene: Just as soon as a new product arrives from Apple, be it hardware or software, you can bet that a few complaints will appear on various and sundry support sites. It may be chronic system crashes, noisy audio ports, excessive fan noise, and, no, I didn’t invent any of these […]

It’s a little late for the silly season, and the unannounced vapor product of the year, the iPhone, is still missing in action. But that hasn’t stopped some people from suggesting that there is more than meets the eye to some of Apple’s potential plans in the foreseeable future. Now you just know that the […]

When Apple’s iPod and iTunes ecosystem was first established, some analysts decreed that Apple was making a huge mistake, the same one it made when it originally decided not to license the Mac operating system. On the surface, having a unified standard might seem like a pretty good idea. This way, you can mix and […]

A lot of people have complained that Apple’s go-it-alone stance is bad for online music sales. Of course, the stellar sales picture shows the reverse, that having a relatively simple, unified method to buy and store your tunes is actually a good idea. Of course, Microsoft thought otherwise, and for the longest time, as most […]