Just this week, I read a report quoting Mac commentator Jim Dalrymple, Editor-in-Chief of The Loop, as saying that there’s no chance that Apple will discontinue the Mac Pro. Of course, when you ask Jim to expand on such pithy comments, you won’t receive any additional details But it’s also true that Jim almost always […]

It may seem strange to read the stats, but over 45% of Windows users around the world are still using XP. We’re talking here of an operating system first released in 2001, the same year that the original release version of Mac OS X debuted. While XP’s share has slowly eroded over time, it actually […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook surely charmed Twitter users — and lots of others — with that famous comment about Windows 8 and the merging desktop and mobile operating systems. It would be very much like trying to combine a refrigerator with a toaster, he said, using extreme examples to get his point across. But maybe […]

My encounters with Apple’s attempts to deliver a reliable online service have been decidedly mixed. Although most of you probably believe that it all began with iTools, a free set of online features, including email, which debuted in 2000, Apple’s shaky online service history goes back further. Indeed, the progenitor of MobileMe — and now […]