Some stories never go away. There are still bloggers, both financial and tech, who proclaim Apple dead and buried, or designated to fail real soon now. They’ve been saying that for years, prompting The Mac Observer to post occasional “Apple Death Knell” articles from time to time. What is clear is that the company must […]

Earning an honest living is more and more difficult, so it’s understandable that there will be more and more outlaws. Some of those outlaws will contact you via email, and clicking or tapping a wayward link can get you into a heap of trouble, particularly if you attempt to login to a site that you believe […]

So is Apple deliberately promoting false stats on the iOS 9 adoption rate? That’s a claim being suggested by some as the result of the fact that the figures at the App Store, showing 52% as of September 19th, aren’t being matched by third party web metrics surveys. One article quoted, for example, Mixpanel Trends as […]

Microsoft has made a huge deal of the fact that its virtual assistant, Cortana, can run on Windows 10, even on your desktop PC. This is a supposed advantage over the Mac, since Apple hasn’t opted to include Siri on OS X. Not that Apple couldn’t do it, but this is clearly a design and/or […]