From Day One of the arrival of the Apple Macintosh in 1984, many insisted Apple was missing the boat by not licensing its crown jewels, the Mac OS, to other companies. This theory had it that Apple would benefit big time as more and more computers bearing their operating system became available. As some of […]

All right, this is becoming familiar. Most of you have seen those benchmarks that indicate that Internet Explorer 8 performs worse in almost every respect when compared to most recent browsers. Even Opera, which has of late lagged in performance, fares better, and IE8 is also decidedly inferior when it comes to passing the infamous […]

Let me put my cards on the table. I’ve talked at length with Daniel Lyons, sometimes known as ‘The Fake Steve Jobs,” and he’s a really nice guy. So I was optimistic that Macs would get really responsible coverage when he joined Newsweek. But I was wrong. You see, Lyons’ serious columns have been seriously […]

Despite the fact that Macs seem to get high ratings in Consumer Reports, and these results are praised to the skies in the Mac community, I have long considered the publication’s coverage of the personal computer market pathetic. In large part, based on my own sources, this is the result of the fact that some of the […]