It’s a sure thing that there are different attitudes about the stories you read about Apple Computer. Some are favorable, some otherwise, and others attempt to toe the line. But you have to wonder about the motives when a story is undeniably false. Take that claim, described in yesterday’s commentary, that sales at the iTunes […]

It’s easy to be lazy in the news business, and hard to be fair. Consider how tech writers treated Apple over the years; well, most of them at any rate. Apple was “beleaguered,”  only had a tiny percentage of the PC market, and couldn’t possibly survive. When the name Microsoft came up, you were told […]

For years, Mac users have been accustomed to a world where being second-best is good enough for most people. So even though most everyone who puts the Mac OS and Windows into a direct comparison concludes that the former is better than the letter, the marketplace made a different decision. Sure, you can point to […]

The other day, I got a letter from a reader suggesting that now that it was so convenient for Mac users to run Windows, developers would quickly decide that it wouldn’t be worth the bother building software for the former. Instead, might as well let you all run the Windows version, and save on all […]