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    Newsletter Issue #553: A Fable of the Secret Handshake

    July 4th, 2010

    Some time back, AT&T ran a series of ads that proclaimed their service would deliver more bars and fewer dropped calls than the competition. Well, maybe they were more accurate on the former than they ever imagined. Just the other day, Apple, in its latest excuse about the source of alleged antenna woes on the […]


    Apple Feeds the Haters

    July 1st, 2010

    All right, you know that most anyone who doesn’t much care for Apple must be cheering now. The company may be facing some serious trouble with the spectacularly successful iPhone 4 rollout, because of alleged antenna issues. As you’ve no doubt heard, if you hold the iPhone 4 in your left hand and move your […]


    Reading the Apple Tea Leaves

    June 28th, 2010

    I read an interesting article from the Daring Fireball’s John Gruber in a recent issue of Macworld that, better than most any other opinion piece, appears to accurately nail Apple’s long range goals. In that article, Gruber pointed out that each Apple hardware or software update appears, at best, to be a minor change from […]


    Adobe Wants it Both Ways

    June 23rd, 2010

    The news arrived Wednesday that Adobe plans to develop a version of their high-end audio app, Audition, for the Mac by the end of the year. Up till now, a reduced-feature version, Soundbooth, has represented Adobe’s efforts to throw a bone to Mac users who have rightly complained about the company’s Windows-only offerings. At the […]