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    Apple Ascendant in the Twilight of the PC Era

    July 3rd, 2013

    It wasn’t so many years ago that many of you no doubt felt that Apple was fated, or condemned, to occupy a niche status in the PC market. With worldwide sales, and U.S. sales for that matter, in the single digits, how could it be otherwise? Sure, Apple would regularly release new versions of OS […]


    Revisiting Macs on ARM

    November 7th, 2012

    Apple is no stranger to switching processor architectures. Back in 1994, Macs were moved from the Motorola 680×0 family to the PowerPC. In theory, your Mac should have run a whole lot faster, but as a practical matter, it took a while for apps to be redone for the new processor. So you were stuck […]


    So is Apple Really Long in the Tooth?

    November 6th, 2012

    It seems that Apple’s critics keep using the same playbook. They repeat the same tired old arguments in a desperate hope that, after a while, the dire predictions will somehow come true. Just today, in fact,  I read a piece suggesting that “Apple remains the best company in the world but it’s starting to show […]


    The Wacky OS X Comments Report

    August 1st, 2012

    Every so often, I come across an article that seems sufficiently off the rails that it deserves a comment, or perhaps a chuckle. But I never provide the links, because the writer of such nonsense generally doesn’t deserve the hits, although I won’t assume that’s the reason some of these questionable claims are posted. Take […]