Apple has received its share of attacks this year, and some of it appears to be deserved. But I won’t dwell on the possibilities except for the device that used to be its most important product — the Mac. Up until the past year, you could usually depend on annual product refreshes. The usual setup was to […]

Apple’s recent decisions raise the question about what they might give up on next? So there are no more Thunderbolt displays — or any displays with the Apple brand — and Apple has worked with LG to produce 4K and 5K displays with the proper features to support the new MacBook Pros and other gear. In recent […]

It almost seems as if a growing number of my columns are very much about comparing the present with the past, or just remembering something I did or observed years ago and how it relates to a current event. So I read an article about the iPod’s 15th birthday. But this is something Apple won’t make […]

In a way the news that AT&T plans to build out its media empire with the acquisition of Time Warner takes me back, way back. So let me explain why. In the 1990s, I received a paycheck from AOL as a forum leader. It was roughly the equivalent of running a message board, but it was […]