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    Do You Want to Rent Music?

    November 24th, 2006

    If you ask Steve Jobs, he’ll tell you that people want to own their music. He can point to the fact that over a billion-and-a-half songs have been sold at the iTunes store, and that Apple holds over 80% of the legal music download market in the U.S. However, Microsoft and the various partners they […]


    The Mac Hardware Report: Ready to Ditch Your PowerPC Yet?

    November 23rd, 2006

    When Apple’s momentous switch to Intel processors was announced in June 2005, Steve Jobs said that the migration would continue until the end of 2007. Now maybe that’s what Apple felt at the time, but, as most of you know, the entire process was completed 16 months early, in August. At the same time, a […]


    On the Dangers of Overwrought Expectations

    November 22nd, 2006

    Ask anyone who pays close attention to the happenings in the Apple universe, and you will get a list of the products that may be be announced at the Macworld Expo come January 2007. While there’s apt to be some variation here and there, and I’m not going you any of my predictions yet, a […]


    The Mac Software Report: A Eulogy for PowerPC Applications

    November 17th, 2006

    This entire article may seem a tad premature, but I see the handwriting on the wall. You see, history is about to repeat itself. Back in the mid-1990s, Apple ditched the aging 68K chip in favor of the PowerPC. When native applications first arrived, they were offered in “Fat Binary” versions, which meant that code […]