Recent reports don’t paint a very promising picture for the PC industry. Most PC companies are destined to report flat or sinking sales in the U.S. and worldwide. Apple is expected to report an uptick in Mac sales, but how much depends, as it has for a while, on overseas growth. At the same time, […]

There’s renewed speculation this week that Apple is getting ready to release a new iMac in the near future. Some suggest this month, in time for the release of Mountain Lion, while others expect it to happen this fall, or perhaps in August. Regardless of when the next iMac appears, the larger question is whether […]

There’s a report this week about Google’s expected announcement of their take on a tablet that best exploits the perceived values of the Android OS. As you know, previous Android tablets have essentially gone nowhere. The possible exception is the Amazon Kindle Fire, which, although it uses an older version of Android, carries a custom […]

I suppose it all started with the release of Final Cut Pro X. Apple threw out the playback for its professional video editing app, and many video editors who depended on FCP for their workflows howled. Yes, they had good reason at the beginning, because Apple had to dump mission-critical features to get the first […]