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    Apple’s Mac Christmas Present

    December 13th, 2017

    When Apple launched the iMac Pro at June’s WWDC, I have to admit I was surprised. I expected a regular old iMac with some higher-end configurations. There are versions of Intel’s Core chips with extra cores, and I thought Apple would choose them. What I didn’t anticipate was a new model with, essentially, the guts […]


    More Encouraging Estimates of iPhone X Sales

    December 5th, 2017

    You might have expected this. Apple’s habitual critics were tripping over themselves attempting to paint the iPhone X — even when it was referred to mistakenly as the iPhone 8 — as a huge failure in the making. At first it was about the problems Apple allegedly encountered in designing the thing, and the critics […]


    An Apple Security Reality Check

    November 30th, 2017

    Without doubt the usual offenders among Apple critics are joyfully reporting about a serious security flaw that reared its ugly head in macOS High Sierra 10.3.1. It was a foolish mistake, the sort of mistake that might cause management to find the offenders and take some serious action. No, I’m not suggesting they should be […]


    Face ID and a “Mission Impossible” Mask?

    November 28th, 2017

    Amid all the hype, Apple is not exactly saying that Face ID and Touch ID are perfect solutions. They don’t work in every single case. From Consumer Reports to a number of tech publications, it has been demonstrated that Face ID can fail from time to time under normal use. Touch ID is better than […]