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    Reading the Apple Tea Leaves

    June 28th, 2010

    I read an interesting article from the Daring Fireball’s John Gruber in a recent issue of Macworld that, better than most any other opinion piece, appears to accurately nail Apple’s long range goals. In that article, Gruber pointed out that each Apple hardware or software update appears, at best, to be a minor change from […]


    Waiting for iOS 4.1

    June 24th, 2010

    The large majority of reviews of iOS 4 are quite favorable, which is understandable. Apple clearly worked hard to attempt to fix most of the perceived shortcomings in their mobile platform, particularly such irritants as multitasking. Now it’s perfectly true that the vast majority of iPhone and iPod touch users didn’t suffer all that much […]


    So Much for Apple Abandoning the Mac!

    June 15th, 2010

    In the wake of a WWDC devoid of Mac-related announcements, beyond a press release to introduce Safari 5 for Mac and Windows, some ill-informed pundits have again declared the Mac dead and buried. This is the sort of thing they do to fill blogs and incorporate misguided analyst comments, without bothering to see what’s really […]


    Newsletter Issue #550: Does Anyone Believe that Apple is Giving Up the Mac?

    June 13th, 2010

    Although Apple, until recently, had the word “Computer” in the corporate name, the product lines frequently extended far beyond that title. Don’t forget that the original LaserWriter, which, along with Adobe PostScript and PageMaker, heralded the desktop publishing revolution in the 1980s, came from Apple. One of the first digital cameras was the Apple QuickTake, […]