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    The Apple Tax Revisited

    November 26th, 2009

    All right, a new report from the NPD Group says that 48% of the retail dollars spent on personal computers in the U.S. now goes to Apple. However, that doesn’t add up to a 48%% market share by any means, because of the price of admission. But, folks, I still maintain there is no Apple […]


    Does the World Really Need Mac Clones?

    November 24th, 2009

    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 […]


    Is Consumer Reports Discovering the Mac?

    November 9th, 2009

    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 […]


    And Now for Some Good News About Apple

    October 26th, 2009

    They say that a publication that only contains good news wouldn’t be long for this world, whether online or print. Indeed, there were newspapers of that sort over the years, but they’ve vanished in the dustbin of history. These days, it’s all about conflict and sensationalism. Anything goes in order to get precious ad dollars. […]