You know, it’s a sure thing that today’s personal computers are supremely powerful contraptions, with capabilities and processing power that would have filled a large room not too many years ago. The Mac OS surely looks better, and it is now a proven, industrial-strength operating system.
However, I wonder whether Apple is truly taking sufficient advantage [...]

It’s very easy to forget that pretty much all the companies I write about and you read about in these columns are profit-making enterprises. So naturally they want good press, and will do what they can to get those favorable write-ups.
At the same time, a real journalist, as opposed to folks who just regurgitate press [...]

When Bill Gates said Microsoft had spent between $8 billion and $9 billion to develop Windows Vista and Office 2007, my mind clouded briefly before I stared at the screen in disbelief. Consider how often it took Apple two years or more to accumulate that much money, and you’ll get the picture. Even now, thousands [...]