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News & Commentary
- Leopard 10.5.3
- Times: The RSS newspaper for your Mac
- Apple ignores Safari carpet bomb flaw (for now)
- Mac market share up to 66-percent (PCs over $1,000)
- Firefox 3.0 Release Candidate available
- Microsoft: We’ll have 40% of smart phone market by 2012
- Can Dell rebound from the brink like Apple?
- The new rules for buying a Mac
- How Microsoft could kill Google on the Web
- AOL Desktop for Mac
- The iMac is a 10
- A Tale of Two Steves
Goodbye Mac, Hello Windows Vista
It took me a long time to make the decision to switch from Mac to Windows. The decision to switch was not easy for me. I’ve used Macs for about 15 years. I loathe Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, and Bill Gates. I scoffed at Windows users feeble attempts to justify their platform of choice. I convinced many friends, family members, and co-workers to switch to the Mac. So, why am I switching?
Read more »Dear Steve, it doesn’t ‘just work’ anymore!
Consider this the summer of my discontent with all things Apple. Sure, my favorite Mac, music player, and cell phone maker produces the coolest of cool stuff. There’s just one problem. It doesn’t ‘just work’ anymore. Apple is heading for a crash.
Read more »Even your Mac can’t keep you healthy
Remarkably, germs don’t seem to care that Mac users are special. Windows users get worms and viruses and the occasional Trojan horse. Mac users get the true joy of computing, which doesn’t mean much when germs attack.
Read more »The evolution of Apple’s quiet revolutions
To say that Apple is doing well these days is to state the obvious. What is there about Apple, Inc. that is not going well? Mac sales are up. Market share is up. The iPod rules portable music. iTunes Store rules online music, TV shows, movies. iPhone is changing the cell phone business. Still, the Apple revolution has become more of an evolution.
Read more »The Steve Jobs Death Watch
I’m not the only Mac user and Apple follower to notice that Steve Jobs did not look healthy during his keynote presentation at WWDC ‘08. Jobs appeared gaunt, tired, listless, thin, and positively unhealthy; almost the opposite of the vibrant, self-assured chief executive of Silicon Valley’s hottest major tech company.
Read more »On the eve of iPhone version 2.0
If anything is possible then it’s possible that Apple will not introduce a new iPhone at the World Wide Developer’s Conference in San Francisco on Monday. And George W. Bush will go down in history as one of America’s greatest Presidents. So, I’m predicting a new iPhone at WWDC.
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