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    Newsletter #499 Preview: The Latest iPhone Rollout Shows Apple Hasn’t Lost its Mojo

    June 21st, 2009

    Although the crowds weren’t quite as large this weekend, it does seem as if hundreds of thousands of new iPhones were sold. AT&T along claims several hundred thousand preorders, and there were unknown numbers from Apple before the 3G S was released on Friday. By Sunday, however, the truth was out there. Steve Jobs himself, […]


    iTunes 8.2: Let the Torture Begin

    June 2nd, 2009

    So, without any fanfare, Apple released an 8.2 update to iTunes Monday afternoon. For the most part, the list of changes is typically opaque, about “accessibility improvements and bug fixes.” However, one item is curious, that the update “now supports iPhone or iPod touch with the iPhone 3.0 Software Update.” Now I don’t know about […]


    Newsletter #473 Preview: More Leopard Annoyances

    December 21st, 2008

    As I’ve reported over the years, I’ve never had a Mac OS X update come back to bite me. On the other hand, I can tell you that one friend, a client named Don, encountered an installation glitch when I ran the 10.5.6 update on his brand new MacBook. Normally, running Software Update on new […]


    So is the iPhone 3G Really a Defective Product?

    August 12th, 2008

    Well, despite the recent well-deserved rise in Apple’s stock price, it seems they can’t get a break. There are widespread reports in recent weeks of various and sundry problems with the iPhone 3G. On the plus side, this hot new gadget is selling out almost everywhere it’s on sale, and some 60 million iPhone apps […]