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    About Beating Apple to the Punch

    December 11th, 2014

    There’s something perfectly boring about hearing a statement that some company has beaten Apple to the punch by releasing a certain product or feature. But it’s not as if Apple is first to market with most of their new gear. So the Mac wasn’t the first personal computer with a graphical user interface, and the […]


    The Apple Innovation Slowdown Myth

    December 10th, 2014

    As I’ve said in the past, some of those who fancy themselves as informed critics of Apple Inc. seldom pay attention. Rather than take time to understand the progression of the company and the details of its history, they make assumptions. Sometimes those assumptions are based on what others might believe without supporting evidence. Sometimes […]


    Mail and Just Working — Not!

    December 3rd, 2014

    Consider this very simple process, or would should be a very simple process. You want to add an account to Apple Mail — and it works essentially the same in all recent versions — so you start by entering your name,  email address and password. At this point, Mail determines whether your settings can be […]


    The Living-in-a-Bubble Report

    November 28th, 2014

    I have no doubt that the OS X Yosemite upgrade experience has been less than perfect for some of you. This is the way it is in the real world. No OS or app is perfect, and sometimes there will be interactions that the developers do not or cannot account for as they continue creating the […]