Lots of you probably cherish the fact that, in using a Mac, you’re someone special. You stand apart from the crowd, in the spirit of that famous “Think Different” commercial Apple presented some years ago. As far as Apple is concerned, though, it’s in business to make money for its employees and stockholders, so being […]

For as long as I can remember, one of the biggest objections Windows users posed to buying a Mac was the price. The conventional wisdom, repeated by many technology writers, had it that you must pay a premium to buy a product with the Apple logo on it. But is it really true? Well, if […]

Buried in the description about the new iPods was the fact that they only ship with a USB 2.0 cable. I mentioned this in passing in my original report on the product introduction, but it deserves more attention, because it was bound to generate complaints from Mac users who feel neglected, and don’t want to […]

Before the dust settled on the introduction of the Napster-To-Go online music rental service, reports about breaking its copy protection technique began to surface. Of course, it’s actually Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management scheme, but that’s beside the point. I first got wind of it as I was taping an interview for this week’s episode of […]