Curious that the death of Apple has been forecast for a couple of decades now. Sure, Apple got real close once, with a near-death experience in the 1990s. It has been reported that Apple was mere months away from going belly up. But that was long ago and far away, and it’s impossible to believe […]

While Lion and Mountain line seem to be reliable enough, a number of Mac users prefer to stick with Snow Leopard, 10.6, which was released in 2009. The critics suggest this is the Apple version of Microsoft’s Windows XP dilemma. There’s a perfectly good OS, but the newer versions aren’t so tempting or compelling, for […]

Just the other day, Bloomberg reported yet another staffing change at Apple. Seems that Richard Williamson, who supervised the mapping program at Apple, and had worked with the company since the days of NeXT, has recently been shown the door. If true, it would represent even more evidence that Senior Vice President Eddy Cue is […]

I don’t know how much money Microsoft is spending — make that squandering — on the Windows 8 and Surface ad campaigns. But if you counted loudness as a factor in making one product more successful than another, you’d think the world had happily embraced the newest Microsoft products. But if the latest Black Friday […]