Ahead of the introduction of nine smartphones sporting the spanking new Windows Phone 7 operating system, the reviews are starting to come in. Whether that’s good or bad for Microsoft is an open question, but some serious shortcomings have already surfaced, and it reveals the major flaws in the company’s approach to product development and […]

All right, let’s put a few cards on the table. You know, or should know, that the iPhone has been a far greater success than most analysts predicted. Even Apple’s original estimate of garnering 1% of the market at the end of 2008 was extremely conservative. Since then, many of those alleged tech analysts that […]

It makes plenty of sense for Apple to want to unify the Mac OS as much as possible. Someone moving from an iPhone or iPad to MacBook or iMac ought to be able to adapt without serious retraining. Or at least that’s the theory. So in the first glimmers of a working Mac OS 10.7, […]

So far Apple’s concept of “Back to the Mac” appears to be the process of taking key user navigation features from the iOS and delivering them in Mac OS 10.7. The main issue, however, is whether that move will actually enhance the overall Mac user experience or whether this is all, in part, a ploy […]