After reading about Apple’s promises about commitment to Macs, I got to thinking about a politician caught with doing something unsavory. With their hands in the cookie jar, they might first deny they’ve done anything wrong. If you don’t believe the denial, it’ll become more emphatic. But when confronted with the failure of their excuses to […]

It’s nice to know that the Apple Watch reportedly hit record sales in the December quarter. It was a banner year, says CEO Tim Cook, except that we can only infer actual sales by looking at the total numbers in the “Other” category in Apple’s financials. From the very beginning, Apple opted not to let […]

As Intel gets later and later in releasing processor upgrades that offer only slight performance boosts from previous processors, the impact on Macs is obvious. New models are late not so much because Apple doesn’t care about Macs, but because of Intel’s roadmap. Sometimes Apple sticks with the previous year’s parts, which incites the critics. Regardless, benchmarks may […]

There’s a general perception that the Apple Watch hasn’t exactly taken off in a big way, at least not yet. I’ve never seen anyone wearing one. Or at least it wasn’t noticeable, not that I’ve gone out of my way to look. In any case, IDC, part of the International Data Group that used to […]