In the corner, there’s a digital music player, and in this corner, there’s an iPod. Superficially, they may seem nearly the same. Both are portable electronic devices that can grab your music library from your computer and place it in your pocket and purse. But there’s where the resemblance ends, and as we all know, […]

To tell you the truth, sometimes I prefer to simply ignore the latest round of speculation about possible iPod killers. Wall Street, of course, can’t stop worrying. When Sony introduced a new line of music players a while back, Apple’s stock went down. Surely Sony would make a dent in the iPod’s dominance, right? Napster […]

Lots of you probably cherish the fact that, in using a Mac, you’re someone special. You stand apart from the crowd, in the spirit of that famous “Think Different” commercial Apple presented some years ago. As far as Apple is concerned, though, it’s in business to make money for its employees and stockholders, so being […]

For as long as I can remember, one of the biggest objections Windows users posed to buying a Mac was the price. The conventional wisdom, repeated by many technology writers, had it that you must pay a premium to buy a product with the Apple logo on it. But is it really true? Well, if […]