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    Tim Cook and “Imaginative CEOs”

    July 20th, 2017

    Over the years, there has been a perception that Tim Cook is not quite the master of innovation Steve Jobs was and thus not suited to lead Apple. After all, it was Jobs who, after his return to Apple in late 1996,  shepherded the introduction of the iMac, the iPod, the iPad, and, of course, […]


    Are We Waiting for the End of the Mac?

    June 24th, 2016

    Some time before the acquisition sayf NeXT returned Steve Jobs to Apple in 1996, he was asked to comment on the state of the company. He mentioned something about milking the Mac for all its worth until it was time to move on the next great thing. I can’t cite the article so many years later, but […]


    So I Woke Up and Realized That OS X Is Fifteen Years Old

    March 25th, 2016

    I knew I was taking a chance. I boarded an early morning flight to San Jose (yes I knew the way) one spring day in 2001. I had perhaps a one hour margin of error, and a late arrival might have made this trip a waste, because I would not have been able to get to Apple’s […]


    Goodbye to Flash?

    December 2nd, 2015

    So it is beginning to seem as if Adobe has finally recognized the reality that Flash is yesterday’s news, and it’s time to move web developers along to using HTML5 instead. But let me start at the beginning. In the spring of 2010, Steve Jobs wrote one of his rare editorials, this one about the […]