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    Newsletter Issue #655: The Dangers of Repeating the Same Mistakes

    June 18th, 2012

    For years, Microsoft has been touting the imminent arrival of the age of tablet computing. Year after year, PC makers got in line and presented their own entrants in this hoped for burgeoning marketplace. Only success was an unrealized dream. Except for a few vertical markets, such as medical offices, tablets — delivered as essentially […]


    Apple Counters the Mac is Dead Myth Yet Again

    June 15th, 2012

    So after hearing that “conventional wisdom” about the Mac dying or just being ignored spouted again and again by some supposedly knowledgeable tech pundits, it does appear from the WWDC this week that this is just not so. Rather than cut back on OS X development, for example, Apple has accelerated it to an annual […]


    The Apple “Enforced Computing” Report

    June 13th, 2012

    More and more, I see nonsensical articles from alleged tech pundits catching fire online. These hacks make outrageous comments, somehow imagining they are being relevant, or at least controversial enough to attract attention. More often than not, they will regurgitate some myths about a company, often Apple Inc., and expand upon them as if they […]


    The WWDC Report: Let the Spin Start

    June 12th, 2012

    There has been so much speculation about what Apple would announce during the WWDC keynote that I hesitated to take much of it seriously. But I will focus on the reality and some of the key fictions, and maybe a few just-misses. But the opening, with Siri doing the intros, was certainly in keeping with […]