Like a damn fool true fanboy I installed Apple’s Snow Leopard the day it came out. Sure, it was faster, and I liked the polishes they made to the user experience. But it broke a lot of things that made it possible for me to develop web sites on my laptop: MySQL, all my Perl [...]
I’m reading today on MacNN that Denmark is considering legislation similar to the law passed in France this past week, which forces Apple to open up their FairPlay DRM to competitors. Conventional Wisdom says that Apple, faced with either 1) allowing songs from the iTunes Music to play on rival MP3 players or 2) leaving [...]
The big news in the Apple world this week is the new iPod shuffle and the iMac mini. This is big news because Apple has always been perceived as having innovative but expensive products, and these two new products are positioned in the mass-market sweet spot. There’s a great illustration of that here. Lots of [...]