The launch weekend of a new product is usually big news for Apple. It didn’t always turn out that way, but when customers began to wait for days or weeks to buy a new product from Apple, it became a media event. Apple was only too happy to benefit from the hype. But the merest suggestion […]

In yesterday’s column, I summarized some of the initial reviews of Apple Watch. In large part, they concluded that it’s beautiful to behold, offers a wide range of useful features, but suffers from buggy, slow-launching apps among other things. It’s a version 1.0 product, with loads of potential, but there were soft spots that, in […]

Apple seeded an Apple Watch with a number of specially selected tech journalists, and the first reviews are in. Even though I haven’t yet considered whether to try one out at an Apple Store, I am intrigued by the possibilities. But it’s definitely not a slam dunk. There are certainly lots of good parts. It’s […]

You can bet that, even when Apple hasn’t announced a product, some online bloggers will ignore the facts and pretend to describe the specs and the features, missing or otherwise. That comes even before others suggest that you shouldn’t buy the product after all. Give it time to develop. Chase the moving target, but don’t […]