As I write this, both Apple and AT&T stores are rapidly running out of their initial stocks of the iPhone, with initial reports claiming some 525,000 were sold over the first weekend. Those of you who expected instant gratification may have to redefine “instant” to encompass days or weeks until new supplies arrive. At the […]

In part, it’s just politics in play, but the eternal rivalry between Mac and PC users sometimes gets just a little too extreme. I mean, in a world where Bill Gates and Steve Jobs can get along, you’d expect that Microsoft and Apple will, at times, play nicely together too. Indeed, Time magazine refers to […]

In interviewing author Kirk McElhearn for this week’s episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, we got to talking about whether Apple should look at some alternatives for distributing Mac OS X and some of its consumer-level digital life products. Today, you can buy Tiger for $129 for the single-user package. A .Mac subscription is […]

For Mac users, the good old days weren’t always so good. You’d go into a store to find some software, and be told there were very few titles for Mac users, or you’d find a few dusty boxes in the rear, in some out-of-the shelf. Even if you managed to locate something that appealed to […]