So have we at all reached the point with Apple where they have a harder time surprising us? I suppose it seems so with all of the speculation about future product announcements. Well, sometimes Apple feeds a few tidbits, I suspect, possibly on background to selected reporters, and possibly in the hints they drop with […]

For the past four years, you might have regarded the iPad as a gadget whose time had come and gone. After several years of amazing growth, sales didn’t just flatten, they fell. Every single quarter, sales were lower than the previous year’s quarter. But Apple persevered, and during quarterly calls with financial analysts, where Apple […]

Let’s put this all in perspective, shall we? macOS High Sierra, sometimes known as macOS 10.13, is currently in the hands of developers and public beta testers. Assuming a high participation rate for the latter, the number of users may have reached hundreds of thousands of brave souls. I say “brave” because it’s fairly buggy, […]

In recent years, Apple has allowed customers to take a huge chance. As with members of Apple’s developer program, you can get early access to Apple’s operating systems, for better or worse. And sometimes it can be for worse. While Apple wasn’t doing public betas of what was then called the Mac OS in the […]