After reading all the wish lists for the next major release if iPhone software — and checking some of my own — it appears that Apple has surprisingly exceeded most everyone’s expectations, with one notable exception that I’ll mention shortly. Indeed, as Tuesday morning’s session with the media progressed at Apple’s corporate campus, the stock […]

The other day I read an article in Macworld observing the 25th anniversary of the Mac, which will actually occur in January of 2009. Several writers suggested that the SE/30, introduced in 1989, was their favorite model — ever. In production less than two years, the SE/30 was basically an amalgam of the original Mac […]

I applaud Apple’s decision to build Time Machine as part of Mac OS X Leopard; I really do. Far too few Mac users have any form of backup regimen, and even when things go badly, some of you still don’t learn from your mistakes, so it could happen all over again. But Time Machine, at […]

We know two things about Leopard. One is that it is still supposedly on track for delivery later this spring. The second is that it’ll contain the final version of Boot Camp, which, as the title implies, allows you to run Windows on your Mac in a dual-boot situation. Despite the obvious facts, it’s sad […]