The freakout over Apple’s first Maps program has certainly created lots of headlines. The current meme: iOS 6 is good, but Maps — Mapgate if you will — is bad. Searches are questionable, directions may be wrong, and destinations and landmarks may be incorrectly labeled or misplaced by hundreds or thousands of miles. So why […]

The media woke up Thursday to what is being presented as a definitive statement from Steve Jobs about the controversial decision to block Flash from Apple’s mobile platform. No doubt Apple’s critics are busy dissecting what is a pretty straightforward post to find evidence of corporate spin and deception. The problem, however, is that what […]

In 1998, Apple killed the floppy drive. It took a few years for the rest of the industry to catch up, but the handwriting was clearly on the wall. Of course, anyone who actually lost data on a worn or defective floppy would only cheer the end of that flawed storage scheme. Segue to 2007. […]

Recent Apple product releases have received an almost unanimous “ho hum” reaction from many members of the tech media, not to mention Mac users. Despite a tremendous amount of anticipation about the iPhone in 2007, for example, the critics maintained that it lacked key features, not to mention being a little too different from existing […]