The future of the Mac has become fodder for discussions by a major financial publication that is getting lots of circulation at the same time Tim Cook, in a message to Apple employees, has reasserted the company’s commitment to the Mac. You’d think it’s either one or the other, or perhaps there are elements of […]

Apple’s critics are out in force this holiday season with end-of-the-year pronouncements. Some say it was a mixed back, but few speak of it as notable. Some suggest Apple had a really bad year, that it couldn’t possibly get much worse. Clearly the latter rating doesn’t recognize the years when Apple was really in shaky condition. […]

Over the years, a slew of alleged journalists and bloggers have written stuff about Apple that just isn’t true, or is partly true but quickly goes off the rails. Time and time again, their pronouncements are regularly refuted by a variety of columnists. Macworld’s mythical crypto-creature, “Macalope,” writes columns three times a week demonstrating when […]

So Apple quietly made a move that isn’t endearing the company to some Mac users. In the macOS Sierra 10.12.2 update, the “time remaining” display for notebooks was unceremoniously zapped, or at least the graphical display of that information  The reasoning is evidently that it’s just not accurate, since it essentially displays momentary power usage which is […]