According to Apple, in less than 60 days some two million iPads were sold. This is ahead of most early estimates that pegged sales for the entire first year at five or six million. What makes the figures more compelling is the fact that Apple remains seriously backordered, and the product is only beginning to […]

I read a headline today, referring to iPad owners as people who are somehow “shackled” to Apple’s hardware/software ecosystem. It conveyed the image of slaves sitting in the bowels of an ancient ship, chained to their seats and forced to manage the oars used to propel the vessel. Sometimes the stories I read about Apple […]

When one’s predictions are largely fulfilled at an Apple event, you have to feel delighted, and that’s an understatement. Consider Snow Leopard. For quite some time, I have joined some of my colleagues in suggesting that Apple ought to provide an upgrade version, for Leopard users, that was priced far lower than usual. My reasoning […]

The other day, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a former presidential candidate and now a TV host, said that he ended 22 years of Windows frustration by moving to the Mac. You have to wonder why it took him so long to liberate himself from Microsoft’s PC hell. Now I’m not going to spend the […]