The launch of Mac OS X as a Public Beta in the fall of 2000 signified a sea change for Mac users. Coming four years after the purchase of NeXT, it represented the vindication of that deal, which also meant the return of Steve Jobs to Apple. Here it was, the long-delayed industrial strength replacement for the […]

When rumors first arose that Apple planned to incorporate a retina display in the 27-inch iMac, I wondered what sort of price penalty it would entail. It’s one thing to pack those extra pixels into an iPhone, an iPad or a 15-inch MacBook Pro. I speculated it would cost several hundred dollars more for the […]

When the iPod appeared in 2001, it originally came across as just an indulgence from Apple. All right, so you had 5,000 songs in your pocket It was easy to sync your music with iTunes via a FireWire connection, and the download speed was way faster than competing digital music players. But the iPod caught a […]

This coming weekend, yet another movie about Steve Jobs will premiere, bearing his name as the title. Ahead of the release, it has become controversial, but you have to wonder why. It’s based on Walter Isaacson’s best-seller, and thus was officially approved by Jobs before he died. If you’ve read the book, you’d see that […]