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    Update! So is the iPad a PC?

    July 27th, 2010

    According to the conventional wisdom, Apple is selling more and more Macs every quarter, but remains far behind on the global market, with just a slim single digit market share.  The real issue, however, is whether the well-known surveys are seriously understating Apple’s success. You see, in addition to selling 3.47 million Macs this past […]


    The Apple Should Have Known Report

    June 17th, 2010

    I suppose you can say I’m weird when I tell you that I enjoy the lame attempts by some members of the media to devise sensational — and usually misleading — headlines and content about Apple Inc. and loads of other subjects. So in the wake of that massive system breakdown when hundreds of thousands […]


    Has Apple Run Out of Mac OS X Features?

    June 16th, 2010

    When first announcing Snow Leopard, Apple stated that they had decided to take a break from snazzy new features, and concentrate on the OS plumbing instead. So you had Grand Central Dispatch, to help with app multithreading, OpenCL, to offload processing chores to graphics chips, enhanced 64-bit support and lots more. The number of visible […]


    So Much for Apple Abandoning the Mac!

    June 15th, 2010

    In the wake of a WWDC devoid of Mac-related announcements, beyond a press release to introduce Safari 5 for Mac and Windows, some ill-informed pundits have again declared the Mac dead and buried. This is the sort of thing they do to fill blogs and incorporate misguided analyst comments, without bothering to see what’s really […]