They sometimes say that the best salesperson believes their own pitch, so maybe it is true that when Steve Jobs first touted the Mac as a computing appliance, he believed it too. Alas, the first time a Mac crashed, the famed “reality distortion field” was breeched. Everything went downhill from there. For me, the most […]

It’s not enough that you can find conspiracy theories in what the government does, historical events of great magnitude, and even such tragedies as the Kennedy assassination. Now we see a growing trend towards finding some deep, dark conspiracy in the goings on even at Apple Computer. Every single move the company makes is evaluated […]

Let me first put my cards on the table. I am a user of both Apple’s and Microsoft’s products. I’ve even had a few things from Dell in my office from time to time, including the fancy 24-inch display currently attached to my G5 Quad. In short, I have no political agenda to offer. I […]

Think about it for a moment. Mac OS X Leopard is months away from release. The entire feature set hasn’t been announced, and we have only a glimmer of an idea of the extra goodies that developers are seeing on the preview DVDs they got this week from Apple at the WWDC. During the keynote […]