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    Apple, AT&T and Google Follies

    May 18th, 2016

    It is the end of a long, annoying day, not made better by three large tech and telecom companies. As I write this column, I’m decompressing and wondering about the conventional wisdoms of some services. So let’s start with Apple Maps and Google Maps. The conventional wisdom has it that the latter is much better than […]


    The Next iPhone: What Can Apple Do Next?

    April 15th, 2016

    The conventional wisdom has it that Apple will continue to follow a tick-tock refresh scheme with the iPhone. What this means is that, one year, there will be a fairly significant case redesign, plus the usual run of internal hardware enhancements. The following year, it’s essentially the same case with revised innards. But even if the […]


    Features in Need of a Purpose

    April 6th, 2016

    So one of Apple’s highly-touted features, which debuted on Apple Watch, is Force Touch. Basically, it brings up more contextual options when you tap and press the display. The 3D Touch version on the latest iPhones, except for the iPhone SE, is souped up by establishing two intensities, hard and harder, to bring up different […]


    This Is Supposed to Make Windows Better than Macs?

    March 1st, 2016

    Despite claims a while back that some 200 million have downloaded Windows 10, it’s not as successful as Microsoft has hoped. Even though it’s a free download, at least till summer, the migration rate has slowed. One possible reason is that Windows 10 arrived somewhat feature incomplete with loads of bugs. Microsoft has pushed loads […]