My encounters with Apple’s attempts to deliver a reliable online service have been decidedly mixed. Although most of you probably believe that it all began with iTools, a free set of online features, including email, which debuted in 2000, Apple’s shaky online service history goes back further. Indeed, the progenitor of MobileMe — and now […]

As you may have noticed, Apple’s stock price dipped by the equivalent of $50 billion in market value earlier this week for various reasons. Certainly the stock market’s volatility was but one possible cause. Another was the claim that wireless carriers resent having to pay Apple high prices for the iPhone and will be looking […]

Apple’s marketing people might have put themselves on a shaky footing when they downplayed the susceptibility of OS X to malware in those Mac versus PC ads. While pointing to over 120,000 viruses on the Windows platform, the ads used the phrase (to quote approximately), “but not on Macs.” But that statement was strategically weasel-worded. It […]

You might consider me a recovered computer book author. I wrote loads of them from 1994 through the early part of this century, before I grew weary of churning out four or five titles a year for a pittance. I decided there had to be a better way to make a living, although I grant […]