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    Newsletter #492 Preview: Microsoft Still Believes
    it Can Fool All of the People All of the Time

    May 3rd, 2009

    Well, folks, get ready to suspend your disbelief. Microsoft has done it again. There’s a new ad campaign in which someone is given money and asked to go into a consumer electronics store and buy a note-book. Once again, Microsoft demonstrates that they require suspension of disbelief to get their point across. In this particular […]


    On Raising Unreasonable Expectations

    April 30th, 2009

    One of the downsides of a company as secretive as Apple is that customers and the media will feel compelled to speculate about new products. Some of that speculation will be true, some of it not, but it’s usually hard to know in advance which predictions will pan out except through logic, reason and a […]


    The Media Designs Apple’s Netbook

    April 29th, 2009

    All right, here’s what we know: Apple has loads of gear undergoing testing at their corporate campus. We don’t know what they’re working on, but we can make educated guesses and if a product passes muster, we might even see it in production eventually. That surely includes the rumored netbook. Apple says nay, but it’s […]


    Should Apple Rush Snow Leopard?

    April 28th, 2009

    Since making a low-key announcement about 10.5’s successor last summer, Apple has been, publicly at least, extremely quiet on the subject. The preview at Apple’s site remains substantially unchanged, at least as of the time I’m writing this article. And the expected release date, ” in about a year,” hasn’t been altered. To the surprise of […]