As most of our regular readers know, I’m no fan of Wall Street. It’s not that I have ever had enough money to play the market, but I rather think that I’d do as well or better in Las Vegas. On the other hand, my budget at the gambling tables has never exceeded $20, so […]

More than two months after Steve Jobs took his extended hiatus to recover from his various health issues, some members of the tech media, clearly in desperate search for a story, are suggesting that Apple no longer has any creativity left. The illusion they present is that Steve Jobs was the one-man band who managed […]

At the beginning of the year, as thousands of Mac users prepared to endure a Macworld Expo keynote with substitute host Phil Schiller, there was plenty of speculation about what new products might be offered. Alas, most of that speculation came for naught, because the product introductions were few and seemed far from satisfying. The […]

I know that when Apple moved from the PowerPC to Intel processors, you could hear and feel the groans around the world. How could Apple possibly abandon the processor platform that made their products the fastest PCs on the planet? How indeed! Well, as it turned out, the PowerPC roadmap didn’t favor Apple. When Steve Jobs […]