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    Welcome to Storagegate

    January 1st, 2015

    So Apple is in the thick of it again, named in a new lawsuit claiming they are being deceptive about the amount of available storage space on an iPhone and an iPad. Worse, Apple is doing this to grab a few dollars a month from you to buy extra iCloud storage. Such a deal! Now let […]


    Samsung Becoming Google’s Worst Nightmare

    May 21st, 2013

    Google has become the number one mobile platform on the planet, and one major reason is that Samsung happens to sell more mobile handsets than any other company. When it comes to profits, Samsung divides 100% with Apple, which means losses and very tiny profits for all the rest. Google doesn’t make a huge amount […]


    An iPhone 4.0 Wish List

    March 1st, 2010

    There are some reasonable certainties in the Apple universe, and one is that there will be an iPhone OS 4.0 release some time later this year, probably in July. That is, if the expected timeframe for Apple’s WWDC remains in late June. For now, I’ll stay away from other possible product revelations, such as the […]


    Thirty Million Lines and Counting: Is There No End to Software Bloat?

    November 3rd, 2006

    The other day I read a short article at Microsoft’s Mac Mojo blog that revealed that the Mac version of Office contained some 30 million lines of code. And that’s now, while they are still creating the next version of the productivity suite. You can expect that awesome number to grow by leaps and bounds […]