All right, does the world need another application to handle Podcasts on their iPhones? Well, Apple says they don’t, because such an application would duplicate the functions of iTunes, apparently, and thus an attempt to post such a product on the App Store was rejected. Now as an early adopter of the Podcast concept, in […]

When Adobe released a new version of Premiere for the Mac platform after an absence of several years, it arrived with support strictly for Intel-based Macs. The same held true for two new applications, Encore and Soundbooth, and Adobe’s excuse had it that removing support for older Macs would allow for much speedier development and […]

So I asked my son, Grayson, to guess how many iPhones Apple sold this past weekend. He started out at 100,000, not recalling that Apple sold over 300,000 units of the original version during its first gala weekend last year. It took him four guesses to arrive at the correct one million figure. I suppose […]

Here’s where we left off in the 1990s: Apple CEO Steve Jobs, then with the word “interim” ahead of his title, conceded that the operating system wars were over and Microsoft was victorious. It doesn’t matter if Microsoft cheated to get there — and I think they did. In the end, Apple was doomed to […]