Months before the iPhone debuted, Apple was being asked over and over again about the prospects for running third party software on it. But a short time before the hot-selling gadget shipped, Steve Jobs was saying that Apple hadn’t decided how to handle development for the iPhone yet, but that a workable solution might come [...]

Competition supposedly helps make good products great, and certainly it was nice to have both Connectix Virtual PC and Insignia’s SoftWindows years ago when you needed to run Windows on your Mac. But those programs were, at best, painful to run and you only used them in a pinch.
When Apple switched to Intel-inside, though, it [...]

It seems whenever I’m about to forget about the various conspiracy theories in this tiny corner of the world, and get on with my life, they seem to appear all over again.
Here’s an example of what I mean: Way back when Steve Jobs first confirmed rumors of the switch to Intel processors in June of [...]