Before we go any further, I want to make it perfectly clear that I am quite disinterested in those unofficial reports about alleged “Trusted Computing” hardware on the test Macintels developers have leased from Apple. A host of paranoid speculation has arisen out of such reports, that Apple is going to impose onerous digital rights […]

Understand that the official word on Tiger originally came at Apple’s annual developer conclave, WWDC, in June 2004. Despite that long lead time, only now has a PC-oriented mail order house decided to sue over trademark infringement. This is no April fool’s joke either, but a real action filed by TigerDirect.com. TigerDirect? Well, some of […]

Did I get your attention? All right, some of you are no doubt poised to pounce on me because of this outrageous statement, and I wouldn’t blame you if I believed it. But I don’t! Actually I believe quite the opposite, that the issues of performance and price are not relevant, and haven’t been in […]

Buried in the description about the new iPods was the fact that they only ship with a USB 2.0 cable. I mentioned this in passing in my original report on the product introduction, but it deserves more attention, because it was bound to generate complaints from Mac users who feel neglected, and don’t want to […]