If you can believe Apple’s ubiquitous iPhone ads, Siri is a magical and absolutely brilliant digital personal assistant who can answer all your questions cheerfully, sometimes with an appropriately pithy and even humorous response. If you can believe a certain disgruntled customer from New York City, who recently filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple, Siri […]

How could it be otherwise? The latest and greatest iPad became available for preorder on March 7th. Through Friday, you could even be assured of delivery by March 16th. But the news came down Saturday that demand was, as expected, “off the charts,” and the initial allocation for online delivery was gone. You could take your […]

I do wonder why some people expect Apple to totally rework a successful product with every revision, including a substantial case redesign. To them, looks count for everything, witness the way the iPhone 4 to iPhone 4s upgrade was criticized. Put one against the other, and it was almost impossible to tell them apart, which […]

So nearly all of the expectations about the third generation iPad essentially came to pass. The most significant new feature is the Retina Display, followed, perhaps, by LTE support, as if that’ll make much of a difference since most iPad users aren’t apt to want to download huge files; you’d be streaming (rather than downloading) […]