When I dared to characterize my experience with OS X Lion is pretty good, I heard from some readers suggesting I was on the wrong side of the facts. The basic point, to them, was that Lion had proven to be a source of instability, with kernel panics and sluggish performance. Clearly they preferred Snow […]

Steven P. Jobs certainly didn’t gain any friends at Adobe when he pronounced Flash dead and buried earlier this year, essentially the next floppy disk. In response, Adobe’s PR people, and some of their executives too, have engaged in pointless spin control, while at the same time continuing to avoid the real issues. The most […]

I suppose it would be nice to see your applications launch faster and your applications actually begin to use the two, four or eight cores of processor power that today’s Macs offer. That may be more than sufficient reason to buy an operating system that, for most practical purposes, otherwise offers few new features. When […]