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    Do You Still Believe the Experts?

    June 22nd, 2009

    Ahead of this past weekend’s introduction of the iPhone G3 S, some analysts who should know better tried yet again to speculate upon how many units Apple would sell through Sunday. Most of the numbers were in the half million range, but were expanded to as high as 750,000 after AT&T announced they had receivedseveral […]


    Newsletter #493 Preview: Of Bill Gates and P.T. Barnum

    May 10th, 2009

    The legendary carnival showman, P.T. Barnum, once denied saying “there’s a sucker born every minute,” but he was fated to forever have that phrase attached to his name. However, you didn’t have to take Barnum seriously, since he was strictly delivering entertainment. If you didn’t like the show, you didn’t have to see it ever […]


    Newsletter #481 Preview: About the Dumb Things Microsoft Can Do

    February 15th, 2009

    Sometimes it seems that Apple and other companies can’t produce products or services that Microsoft won’t try to imitate. Take the recent reports about plans to create a “Microsoft Store,” in a lame effort to duplicate the success of The Apple Store. Now instead of hiring someone familiar with the sophisticated inner-workings of a retail […]


    Newsletter #470 Preview: Not Everything From Apple Just Works!

    November 30th, 2008

    Every few days, I see a message floating above the desktop asking if I want to sync something on my MacBook or Mac Pro. It may be something in the keychain, such as login information, or a preference in Mail or another Apple program. That seems well and good, and I’m glad to know the […]