So without quoting the source, I read yet another article Monday suggesting that Apple is doing too much too quickly and thus releasing products with a few too many defects. The most notorious example is iOS 8.0.1, withdrawn a little over an hour after being released. It seems that it caused havoc on an iPhone […]

One thing was part and parcel of the original Mac OS, and that was the promise of being able to discover many of the most important features by pointing and clicking. Features were mostly consistent among applications, so if you learned one, you knew most of the others. But of course things are never so […]

Apple never heard the end of it when September’s iOS 8.0.1 update went awry. This sorry little episode fueled speculation that the company had taken on far too many projects and needed to slow down and improve quality control. While Apple’s new product introductions were but a fraction of what other tech companies delivered, that must […]

In recent months, I’ve written some preliminary reviews of several products. But due to the press of time and other events, I haven’t gotten around to actually playing catch-up. It’s time that I make up for some of that, which is the purpose of this article. Now several weeks ago, I received an iPad Air […]