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    Rumors that Aren’t Rumors

    October 11th, 2012

    So there have been occasional published reports that Microsoft is working on an iOS version of Office. According to the original rumors, it would have arrived by now. There’s yet another claim that Office will arrive for iOS and Android in the near future. The latest claim came from a Microsoft product manager working in […]


    Apple and Customer Good Will

    October 5th, 2012

    As a business, when you have a loyal base of customers, you usually can be assured that they will tolerate failures or defects from time to time, usually if you level with them about what went wrong. Corporate spin control is a fine art, but quite often it’s all about honestly admitting a problem and […]


    The Mountain Lion Report: Has the Ardor Cooled?

    October 3rd, 2012

    While Apple only rarely releases official figures on OS adoption rates, there are ways to find out, roughly speaking, through third-party surveys of Web activity. The sampling may not be as exact, say, as a Gallup Poll, but the numbers ought to show rough trends. One of those tracking firms, Net Applications, analyzes data from […]


    The Apple Is Always Perfect Rant

    October 2nd, 2012

    I suppose if you believe what currently passes for conventional wisdom in the tech media, Apple was moving along perfectly in recent years until the Mapgate debacle. The iPhone, the iPad, the iPod and the Mac were all running just peachy, OS X and the iOS were free of errors, all until Apple failed to […]