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    Why Mac Users Love the Products and Hate the Company

    August 20th, 2007

    I’ve been accused from time to time of creating strong and lurid headlines, in the fashion of a weekly “supermarket” tabloid newspaper. I’ll grant you that my headlines are apt to be strong, but they are always meant to reflect the contents. You see, over the years, I’ve run various commentaries that fit into the […]


    Newsletter #401 Preview: Lies, Lies and More Lies

    August 5th, 2007

    You know, with so many resources for news about Apple Inc. these days, you’d think it would be awfully difficult to just make up stories or come up with a wrong-headed interpretation of events. After all, a single foolish story ought to be short-circuited by the plain, unvarnished truth. Unfortunately, things don’t quite work out […]


    Are There Really Mac Secrets?

    August 2nd, 2007

    What’s a secret? The conventional definition is “something kept hidden or unexplained.” Indeed, the word “secret” has found its way into lots and lots of Mac books and articles over the years, but many of them were not about what products Apple might be planning to deliver, even though they are the real secrets. Instead, […]


    Mac OS 10.4.10: The Worst System Update Ever?

    July 23rd, 2007

    The other day, I was interviewing MacFixIt’s Ben Wilson for one of his periodic slots on The Tech Night Owl LIVE. During the conversation, he remarked that reader surveys had shown that the recent 10.4.10 update for Tiger was the most troublesome in recent memory. This surprised me, largely because I never seem to have […]