Category: Macintosh
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How you tell you're dealing with Apple utility software
It’s simple with minimal preference settings. It’s beautiful. It makes a gorgeous demo for Steve Jobs during a Keynote. He only asks it to do the one thing it does well, and he uses dummy data on pristine machines to do it. It’s buggy and brain dead until version 3 or 4. I have a…
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Thoughts on today's nearly-everyone-but-SteveNote
Over an hour of demos?!?! Seriously?!? I find it hard to believe that what we saw/heard was what was planned. Can you imagine? Steve: “Okay, folks, I only have 2 things to announce this time and a lot of time to kill. So instead of my standing up there turning the reality distortion field to…
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Apple Plays a Little Dirty with 10.5.3
How does Apple get away with these things when no one else can? When you update to Mac OS X 10.5.3, if you own an iPhone you can now sync your Google contacts to Address Book: If, like me, you don’t own an iPhone: What would folks say if Microsoft had features in Windows that…