Well, the news came today that, despite congressional investigations and lawsuits to address all those inflammatory allegations about what Apple’s “evil” data gathering operations are retrieving from you, Apple isn’t tracking your movements on your iPhone. At nearly the same time, the White House released a so-called “long form” birth certificate showing, once again, that […]

So I read a story this week from columnist Daniel Eran Dilger, writing in AppleInsider, entitled “Samsung to Rival Apple’s iPod touch with Android Galaxy Player,” and I wondered, all over again: Just what are these companies thinking? Do they not understand the difference between innovation and copying? Certainly, a company as successful as South […]

There are no doubt some people in our audience who feel that Steve Jobs is a little loose in the head, maybe not the sanest person on the planet, but is a positively brilliant visionary and businessperson. After all, who else in the tech industry, even Bill Gates, could have taken Apple in 1997, ruthlessly […]

It makes plenty of sense for Apple to want to unify the Mac OS as much as possible. Someone moving from an iPhone or iPad to MacBook or iMac ought to be able to adapt without serious retraining. Or at least that’s the theory. So in the first glimmers of a working Mac OS 10.7, […]