It’s perfectly fine to make a company know what you’d like them to do, the products they should make, the products they shouldn’t make, and the changes that should be made. Apple has attracted a particularly loyal user base, so it’s understandable they feel part of a family and free to make suggestions. Compare that […]

When I first discovered Macs in the 1980s, I never heard of Steve Jobs, or Steve Wozniak for that matter, nor was I particularly familiar with the Apple culture. I only knew that the Apple Macintosh was the future for my line of work, traditional typography. At the time, I labored on one of those […]

In my youth, radio disk jockeys would laugh about the local papers, calling them “daily fish wrappers.” At the same time, the news departments of those stations were busy combing through the pages of those fish wrappers in search of leads for a story. In those days, the broadcast newspeople would largely “rip and read,” […]