If early estimates for the likes of Gartner and IDC are correct, Mac sales appear to have stabilized during the holiday quarter. This came after a decline for several quarters, possibly because of the overall erosion of PC sales, and no doubt partly because Apple has apparently been stingy about upgrading these machines. Or maybe […]

The main course for Apple’s media event on Monday, March 9th is well known. You’re going to “Spring Forward” to the official Apple Watch rollout. This is a given, and there are loads of questions yet to be answered about Apple’s contender in the smartwatch market. And what about battery life? Will it be possible […]

I’m sure a lot of you believe that the Apple II and the Mac were firsts in their categories, but they weren’t. Yes, it’s true there were personal computers with graphical user interfaces before the Mac debuted in 1984. An early version of a GUI debuted in 1973 on the Xerox Alto, developed at their PARC labs. The […]

It’s hard to take projections from industry analysts seriously. If you believed some of their projections, Windows Phone would soon overtaking the iOS as the second most popular mobile platform on the planet. And, of course, Apple would be relegated to near-irrelevance once again except for a few million diehards who loved to pay more for […]