This article is based on several assumptions, the main one being that Apple won’t be making any significant changes to the announced Snow Leopard features — I mean refinements — before releasing it in September. As a result, some questionable decisions of long standing will remain unchanged. With that in mind, I’m inclined to start […]

The conventional wisdom — which is seldom conventional — has it that Apple and Microsoft must tout loads of flashy new features to justify asking their customers to pay for their ongoing operating system upgrades. That may be true, all right, but it only presents part of the picture. Now as some of you recall, […]

When one’s predictions are largely fulfilled at an Apple event, you have to feel delighted, and that’s an understatement. Consider Snow Leopard. For quite some time, I have joined some of my colleagues in suggesting that Apple ought to provide an upgrade version, for Leopard users, that was priced far lower than usual. My reasoning […]

Notice, gentle reader, that I use the word please, since I don’t want to make this request seem closer to a demand, although I certainly feel strongly about the subject. Now why should I make this request? Well, in one sense, the 10.6 release is similar to 10.1, in that it cleans up the system […]