So what can I say. One day, Steve Jobs poo-poohs a product, and a few months later, he brings out a version of the very same thing. But the question remains the same: Are you ready to watch Lost and Desperate Housewives on a 2.5-inch screen? Are you ready to pay $1.99 for each episode […]

In the previous chapter of this little tale, I pointed out how Apple’s skeptical protests about whether a possible new product makes sense should be taken with a grain of salt. On the top of the list were such “unthinkables” as a cheap Mac and an iPod with Flash memory, products that were later released […]

Turn back the clock to the fall of 2004. Now consider the events that most of you would have regarded as impossible then or ever. I have to say that the things I took for granted about this tiny corner of the universe were also turned topsy-turvy, which is why I never claim to have […]

So I was hanging out in The Tech Night Owl LIVE chat room the other night talking with some listeners, when one began to speak about USB-related problems with this 17-inch Apple LCD display. Earlier that day, a client dropped off his 700MHz eMac, complaining that he couldn’t get it to recognize his FireWire backup […]