Amid all the comments about Apple’s less-than-stellar sales performance in the last quarter, there have been suggestions on how Apple might fix things. Some were dumb, such as suggesting that the iPhone 7 needs to be a more compelling update. It’s dumb because we do not know what features or performance levels an iPhone 7 will […]

Apple’s notebook of the future, the MacBook, was introduced with a flourish last spring. A big deal was made of its slim and light form factor, the “stepped” battery that provided for higher capacity and reasonably long battery life. Oh, and this was Apple’s first foray into USB-C, an implementation of the USB 3.1 standard. […]

In 2010, I acquired a 17-inch MacBook Pro to replace a similar notebook purchased early in the Intel-based Mac era. I had grown so accustomed to using large displays when working in my home office that I wanted to duplicate as much of that experience as possible on the road. Of course, I had to […]

Apple did reasonably well in 2015, earning record profits and expanding from two OS platforms to four with the Apple Watch and Apple TV. That it all seems to work as well as it does, more or less, may seem a miracle to some. How many tech companies manage a similar effort successfully? Well, Google […]