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    Suing Microsoft

    March 28th, 2017

    No major company is necessarily free of of the need for some legal wrangling. In the old days, Apple filed legal actions against Microsoft — mostly over changes of theft of the Mac OS — but, in 1997, the two companies decided to settle and focus on making money. Sometimes that desire converges, which explains why […]


    Newsletter Issue #904: Renewed Demands for Apple to License its OS

    March 27th, 2017

    It’s very easy to forget the past, and the mistakes you made. Just keeping up is difficult, and sometimes the situation changes enough that you might want to revisit something you tried before, something that failed. Maybe it’s just worth giving it another try in the hope that there will be a different result. And, […]


    Returning to the Mac

    March 24th, 2017

    So Apple will probably have more iPad updates in the coming weeks or months. But that takes us back to Apple’s “other” entry in the personal computer space, the Mac. Where are the spring Mac refreshes? Are there going to be any? More to the point, when Apple CEO Tim Cook asserts that the company […]


    Random iPad Silliness

    March 23rd, 2017

    As most of you know, the latest iPad is sort of a throwback. It reverts to the original name — it’s evidently considered to be a fifth generation model — and uses an older form factor. So instead of the one utilized by the iPad Air 2, it reverts to the slightly thicker and heavier […]