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    More Missed Logic About Apple

    November 12th, 2013

    While considering what I would write about for today’s column, I ran across this headline, “Apple’s new iWork: another missed opportunity to set expectations.” Missed opportunity? Evidently the writer in question, who doesn’t deserve a link, is attacking Apple for two reasons. First that iWork doesn’t have the sprawling range of features of Office and, […]


    Another iOS/OS X Convergence Rant

    November 5th, 2013

    So Apple’s cards have been on the table for a long time now. Mobile gear and traditional personal computers are two different breeds, and they are not meant to become one. At least not now. This is very different from what Microsoft is trying to do with tablets, witness the Surface, which has, so far, […]


    Time to Dump Gmail?

    November 1st, 2013

    Let me put my cards on the table, without saying too much beyond the obvious. When Gmail began in 2004 as a public beta, where you had to be invited to sign up, I decided to give it a try. Now the same was true with Hotmail, AOL and other services over the years. I […]


    Bugs and Fixes

    October 30th, 2013

    So OS X Mavericks has been out for one week, so you must expect that the sky must be falling. After all, every time a new version of OS X appears, there are early-release bugs that potentially cause havoc. Or at least that’s what some might believe, although only a few releases came with show […]