The Tech Night Owl Archives
June 2013
- The Mac Pro Expansion Dilemma
- The iOS 7 Report: All This in Eight Months?
- Newsletter Issue #707: Android's Biggest Problem
is Not the Features or the Fragmentation - OS X Mavericks: Isn't There More?
- The iOS 7 Flip-Out
- From Cube to Tube: What About the Mac Pro?
- About the Apple Sporting Event
- Newsletter Issue #706: What I Don't Expect to See at the WWDC
- Did Apple Jump the Gun About Ditching Optical Drives?
- So Did Samsung Score a Major Victory Against Apple?
- About the Next Mac Pro
- iOS 7: Flat Means Cleaner
- Newsletter Issue #705: So Did Tim Cook Lie
About Apple's New Product Rollout Schedule?
May 2013
- Expectations About the Next iPhone
- Any Show Stoppers from Tim Cook?
- About Apple's Services
- That Silly "Apple Must Compete With" Argument
- Newsletter Issue #704: Are You Ready for Black, White and Flat All Over?
- Getting Emotional About Apple's Tax Payments
- Did Samsung Bamboozle Consumer Reports?
- Apple's New Product Doublespeak
- Samsung Becoming Google's Worst Nightmare
- Newsletter Issue #703: Samsung Galaxy S4: More Bits and Pieces
- Samsung Galaxy S4: What About the Little Things?
- iOS and OS X: Is Apple Running Out of Ideas?
- So Where's My File?
- What Features Do You Want in a Smartphone?
- Newsletter Issue #702: Do You Hate Apple?
- What About a Single File Format?
- So the iPhone 5 Isn't Dead Yet
- About Those 100 Million Windows 8 Sales
- What if You Didn't Own Software Licenses?
- Newsletter Issue #701: They Know What Apple is Going to Do
- Why Expect Apple to Do All the Innovation?
- Typical Pre-WWDC Talk
- Ready To Toss Your Tablet?
April 2013
- The Apple Rush to Judgment Continues
- Newsletter Issue #700: The iPhone Versus Android: It's About Customer Loyalty
- Apple and a Finger Snap
- Tim Cook: Damned if He Doesn't
- Analyst Estimates About Apple Confront Reality
- Even More Wacky Apple Demands
- Newsletter Issue #699: Designing by Focus Group
- For Apple the Hits Keep on Coming
- Guess Who Makes Money from Android?
- A Long History of Foolish Apple Demands
- The Dizzying Pace of Apple Speculation
- Newsletter Issue #698: Coming to Grips with the New PC Industry
- Why Are Industry Analysts Still in Business?
- The Endless Wait for the Fiberhood
- Apple and the Cheap Gear Equation
- Stuff and Nonsense About the Letter "S"
- Newsletter Issue #697: False Perceptions About Apple Continue to Dominate
- The Microsoft on the Ropes Report
- The Apple Smart TV: Meeting the Needs of -- What?
- Apple's Product Pipeline: Stating the Obvious
- About the Tim Cook Apology Tour
- Newsletter Issue #696: Are You Ready for the Next Apple/Samsung Battle?
March 2013
- The Apple Report: Losing the Faith?
- Do We Need a Rush of Apple Product Intros?
- T-Mobile: A Major Change? Not Exactly
- What About an Android Death Watch?
- Newsletter Issue #695: Apple and the Media: Whom Do You Trust?
- The iMac and the Timing Dilemma
- Tunnel Vision and the iWatch
- Should We Pay Attention to Former Apple Executives?
- Is Wall Street's Negative Delusion About Apple Ending?
- Newsletter Issue #694: Wall Street's Curious Response to the Samsung Galaxy S4
- Can You Really Trust the Cloud?
- Is There a Real Buzz for the Samsung Galaxy S4?
- Industry Analysts Continue to Deliver Bad News About Apple
- More Foolish "Apple is Losing its Way" Chatter
- Newsletter Issue #693: Is it Time for a New Revolution with Apple's Mobile OS?
- About Those Public Platform Swatchers
- Can Microsoft's Executives Be That Stupid?
- The iPhone 5S is Due in June, or August, or Forget It!
- Should Apple Become Aggressive About Media Falsehoods?
- Newsletter Issue #692: Do You Remember Research?
- Removing a Superstar Executive from the Comfort Zone
February 2013
- The Apple Shareholder's Meeting: Sorry, No Stock Split!
- More Wacky Sales Predictions for Apple?
- New HP Slate 7 Reveals Company's Lack of Vision
- Newsletter Issue #691: International Roaming for Fun and Profit
- The Patent and the Reality
- More About the Apple/Wall Street Disconnect
- Microsoft Lives in the Bizarro Universe
- Repeating Rather Than Researching Apple News
- Newsletter Issue #690: Shouldn't Apple Be Previewing OS 10.9 Real Soon Now?
- The Apple Must Build This Report
- Apple Makes a Smart Pricing Move
- Should Samsung Buy Android?
- So is Apple Testing a -- What?
- Newsletter Issue #689: The iOS Versus Android: Wearing Someone Else's Shoes
- The Simple Versus the Complicated
- A Look at the Mac App Store Mess
- The Dell Buyout Smoke and Mirrors Report
- Apple Gear: So Much for a Lack of Demand
- Newsletter Issue #688: Crazy Suggestions for Apple Products
- More Proof Microsoft is in Deep Trouble?
January 2013
- Apple's Legal Wranglings: Much Ado About Nothing
- Awaiting (or Dreading) OS 10.9
- The Apple Report: Time to Return to Sanity?
- Newsletter Issue #687: The Ongoing Apple Disconnect
- They Want Apple to Fire Tim Cook
- The Apple Financials Report: Not Meeting Inflated Expectations
- Windows Phone and the 2.6% Factor
- Let's Stop this Jobs Was Right, Cook Was Wrong Nonsense!
- Newsletter Issue #686: What Does Apple Have Against RAM Upgrades?
- So is Apple Toast, or Flying Higher than Ever?
- More Confused Apple Product Speculation
- So is Wall Street Misjudging Apple?
- Old Wall Street Rumors Become New Wall Street Rumors
- Newsletter Issue #685: Why Still Cover Apple's New Product Announcements?
- Some Dirty Secrets About Upgrading to Windows 8
- Does the World Need a Cheap iPhone?
- Making Excuses for Consumer Reports
- Waiting for Tim Cook to Fail
- Newsletter Issue #684: More Dumb Suggestions for Possible Apple Products
- Burying the Netbook
- Yet More Curious Apple Speculation
- Possibly Logical Apple Predictions for 2013
- They Blame Apple for the Faults of the Tech Industry
December 2012
- Newsletter Issue #683: The Mapgate Report: The Worst Tech Failure of 2012?
- How About an Apple TV Digital Hub?
- The Love It or Leave It Argument
- Multitasking and the iOS
- Apple's Lost Quarter -- Not!
- Newsletter Issue #682: Mountain Lion: Four Months Later
- About Apple's Walled Garden
- An ISP's Dirty Secret
- A Potential Reality Check in the Apple/Samsung Battle?
- Defeating the Conventional Wisdom About Apple Once Again
- Newsletter Issue #681: Apple is Toast Fever Strikes Again!
- Google Maps for iOS: Watch the Media Fawn!
- Macs and PCs Become Harder to Sell
- The Apple Spooking the Media Report
- So Where Are the Great PC Tablets?
- Newsletter Issue #680: The Tim Cook Interview: More is Less
- Notes of Interest from Those Tim Cook Interviews
- The Apple Stock Fear Factor
- Has Apple Reached the End of the Fast Growth Curve?
- Is Apple Finally Ready to Repair OS X Interface Problems?
- Newsletter Issue #679: Apple Continues to Give Repair People Nightmares
November 2012
- Is What You See What You Really Get?
- Will Executive Shakeups Help Apple and Microsoft?
- About the Stories That Apple Hates Pros
- Lots of Advertising Doesn't Guarantee Sales
- Newsletter Issue #678: The Return of Snow Leopard Conspiracy Theory
- Does Microsoft Donate to Consumer Reports?
- Apple's Siri Dilemma
- How Did Microsoft Miss This?
- Is it Time to Talk About OS 10.9?
- Newsletter Issue #677: Apple and Microsoft: Ups and Downs
- Will the iPad mini Become the Mainstream iPad?
- iTunes Match: Will the Second Year Be as Imperfect as the First?
- If Windows 8 is Doing So Well, Why Dump the Person in Charge?
- So Has Apple Given Up the Nuclear Option?
- Newsletter Issue #676: The Apple/HTC Settlement: So Who Caved?
- A Made in the U.S.A. iPad?
- More Apple is Declining Nonsense
- Revisiting Macs on ARM
- So is Apple Really Long in the Tooth?
- Newsletter Issue #675: Should We Demand More Consistent Mac and iOS Interfaces?
- The Windows 8 Report: A Bag of Irritants
- Are the Latest iPad Reviews Ho-Hum?
October 2012
- Did Tim Cook Learn Something from Donald Trump?
- Revisiting Microsoft Office for Mac
- Newsletter Issue #674: More Wacky Industry Analysts Have a Go at Apple
- Apple's Financials: Meeting Inflated Expectations
- Is it Really All About iPad mini Pricing?
- A Mini with Maxi Impact
- The Dumping Samsung Report
- Newsletter Issue #673: A Fast and Dirty Look at Apple Pricing
- The Silly Exercise of Predicting iPad mini Sales
- Early Windows 8 Reviews: Understating the Obvious
- The Microsoft "In Your Face" Report
- Updated: Did Apple Really Postpone the iPad Rollout to Freak Microsoft?
- Newsletter Issue #672: A Casual Look at More Windows 8 Silliness
- About that Mac Sales Decline
- Rumors that Aren't Rumors
- Visiting the iPad Mini World Again
- Are You Still Holding Off on iOS 6?
- Newsletter Issue #671: The Foolish "What Would Steve Do" Argument
- Apple and Customer Good Will
- Another Look at the iPad mini
- The Mountain Lion Report: Has the Ardor Cooled?
- The Apple Is Always Perfect Rant
- Newsletter Issue #670: Examining the Ongoing Mapgate Controversy
September 2012
- Another Look At Apple's Alleged Ongoing Problems
- The Apple Hardware Report: Now About the Rest of the Year
- Separating the Fake Apple Criticisms From the Real Ones
- Did Apple Really Miss iPhone 5 Sales Expectations?
- Newsletter Issue #669: Is Maps Really an Apple Miscalculation?
- Of Maps, and Other iOS 6 Stuff
- Apple's Update Wednesday: Slightly Glitchy Close Encounters
- Those Wacky Responses to the iPhone 5
- Playing the Great Spec Game
- Newsletter Issue #668: Apple Derangement Syndrome is in Full Force
- Do We Expect Too Much of the iPhone 5?
- The Apple Event Report: Not So Surprising
- The Apple Event Still Won't Belong to Tim Cook
- The Kindle Fire: So What's the Point?
- Newsletter Issue #667: Some Foolish Marketing Schemes from Amazon and Nokia
- A Meager iMac Wish List
- What About Future Mac Growth?
- So is Apple Revealing Too Much About the Next iPhone?
- What the Latest OS Market Share Stats Reveal
- Newsletter Issue #666: Can Apple Make Up with Its Enemies?
August 2012
- Ready to Trade Your iPhone?
- PC Makers Still Can't Understand Simple
- Memo to Microsoft: Why Didn't You Make Windows 8 Usable?
- Apple's Legal Skirmishes Are Far From Over
- Newsletter Issue #665: So Does the Apple/Samsung Verdict Hurt Innovation?
- The OS 10.8.1 Update: Is That All There Is?
- About Those Alleged iPhone 5 Production Problems
- Apple Overcomes Quarterly Financials Stock Hit
- iWork: Long in the Tooth
- Newsletter Issue #664: So Why is the Media Still Taking Microsoft Seriously?
- The Apple TV Report: The Media Catches Up with the Night Owl
- Microsoft Continues to Fade into Obscurity
- What About the Macs that Still Need an Upgrade?
- Can There Be No More iPhone Surprises from Apple in 2012?
- Newsletter Issue #663: The Mountain Lion Report: Is My Problem Your Problem?
- User Friendliness Versus Hype
- Is Office Still Relevant on the Mac?
- Reading the iPhone 5 Tea Leaves
- The Mountain Lion Report: Checking Out Some Early Bugs
- Newsletter Issue #662: How Would Windows 8 Do on Rotten Tomatoes?
- Is Apple TV Ready to Leave the Hobby Stage?
- Microsoft's Email Musical Chairs
- The Wacky OS X Comments Report
July 2012
- Speculation About the Next Apple Event
- Newsletter Issue #661: The Mountain Lion Report: Surprisingly Stable
- Watch Out for the iPhone Sales Conspiracy Theories
- The Mountain Lion Report: Did Apple Play it Safe?
- The Apple Financials Report: Waiting For the Next iPhone
- So Where Does the OS X Go From Here?
- Newsletter Issue #660: Do You Really Need to Prepare for Mountain Lion?
- Haven't We Had Enough Patent Lawsuits?
- No New Mac Office?
- Is This When You Stop Buying the iPhone 4S?
- About the Post-PC and PC+ Eras
- Newsletter Issue #659: So is the World Really Waiting for Windows 8?
- The Mountain Lion Planned Obsolescence Report
- So Are We Really in the PC+ Era?
- Microsoft Vows to Beat Apple -- Again!
- Is Consumer Reports Having its Revenge Against Apple?
- Newsletter Issue #658: They Still Believe Apple's Competitors Will Triumph
- The iPad Mini Revisited
- Yet Another Microsoft is Losing It Report
- The Eternal Search for a Retina Display
- No, Apple is Not Competing By Lawsuit
- Newsletter Issue #657: Five Years After Apple Changed the Smartphone Industry
June 2012
- Is This a Way to Make a Profit From a Tablet?
- The OS X Report: My Problem is Everyone's Problem
- More Faux Competition for the iPad
- Is Apple Really Backtracking on Mac Security Claims?
- Newsletter Issue #656: Does Mountain Lion Fulfill the Promise of Lion?
- Is the Mac App Store a Bad Idea?
- Separate Consumer and Pro Versions of OS X?
- Is the Microsoft Surface Tablet Another Zune or Just Vapor?
- Critical Skepticism of Windows 8 Grows
- Newsletter Issue #655: The Dangers of Repeating the Same Mistakes
- Apple Counters the Mac is Dead Myth Yet Again
- The Danger of Jumping to Conclusions About Apple's Plans
- The Apple "Enforced Computing" Report
- The WWDC Report: Let the Spin Start
- Newsletter Issue #654: Must We Assume the Worst About Apple?
- Those Silly Industry Analysts Revisited
- Preparing for the Oh-So-Busy WWDC
- So Maybe Apple Won't Make a TV?
- How to Really Transfer Your Email Between Macs
- Newsletter Issue #653: Hopes Grow for Possible iOS 6 Changes
- Some Mac Upgrade Reassurance
May 2012
- Tim Cook Interview Debunks Critical Talking Points
- So Would Steve Jobs Really Have Vetoed Siri?
- Desperate Measures to Get Businesses to Upgrade from Windows XP
- Newsletter Issue #652: Getting Caught Up with Real or Imaginary Upgrades
- A Collection of Random Irritants
- Does Microsoft Have Any More Luster to Lose?
- Apple Continues to Upend the Tech Industry
- Rumors About New Apple Gear and the Consquences
- Newsletter Issue #651: Imitation is the Sincerest Form of -- Imitation
- The iPhone 5 Speculation Report: What Do We Really Know?
- Does Microsoft Have the Worst CEO on Earth?
- Assumptions (or Delusions) About the Next MacBook Pro
- The Apple Security Report: Is OS X Really Ten Years Behind?
- Newsletter Issue #650: They Want to Design Apple Hardware
- The Apple Notebook: Is the Optical Drive the New Floppy?
- The iPad Killer Report: Is There a Way Forward?
- An Apple/Samsung Settlement?
- The Analyst Lament: If Your First Prediction Doesn't Succeed, Try, Try Again
- Newsletter Issue #649: The Other Side of Net Neutrality
- Another Anti-Apple Smart TV Rant
- Taking Responsibility for Malware
- Another Apple Market Share Rant
- Of Refrigerators and Toasters
April 2012
- Newsletter Issue #648: If They Only Gave Tests for Industry Analysts
- Microsoft and the "New Coke" Syndrome
- How Long Can the Apple Gravy Train Last?
- The Curious Run Up to Apple's Financials
- Yet Another Router Setup Hassle
- Newsletter Issue #647: No Microsoft, It Wasn't Just the Outlook Database
- The iCloud Report: A Look at Apple's 1%
- Potential Challenges for Apple?
- Another Wackiness Rant
- Is it Time to Take Mac OS X Malware Seriously?
- Newsletter Issue #646: Still Not Ready: Microsoft Outlook for Mac 2011
- The eBook Antitrust Lawsuit: From an Author's Point of View
- Mac Malware Revisited
- Does the World Need a Larger iPhone?
- The AT&T is Dumb Report
- Newsletter Issue #645: A Few Offhand Observations About the New iPad
- More Evidence that the Android OS is a Mess
- Attention Tech Media: It's the Company Not the CEO!
- Some Red Flags About New iPad Fear Mongering
- The Apple Antiglare Report
- Newsletter Issue #644: Half the Families in the U.S. Can't Be Wrong
March 2012
- Revisiting the iPad mini Myth
- Yet Another Quality Control Rant
- Consumer Reports Fails to Kill the iPad
- The Mac-As-Appliance Dilemma
- Newsletter Issue #643: Apple's Quiet OS Anniversary
- iPhone and iTunes: The Flakiness Continues
- Consumer Reports Trolls for More Anti-Apple Hype
- Forget the New iPad! What About the Next iPad?
- The New iPad Report: Getting Caught Up in the Wrong Specs
- Newsletter Issue #642: A Brief Visit with an Apple TV
- Microsoft's Vision for Searching for Needles in Haystacks
- More Wacky iPad Competition
- The Siri Report: Can You Hear Me Now?
- Another Look at the Apple Juggernaut
- Newsletter Issue #641: The New iPad Freakout
- What's in a Name? The New iPad Conundrum
- The Apple Media Event: Efficiency Rules
- The Email Report: Those Broken IMAP Installations
- The Apple Smart TV Report: A Serious Problem the Media Ignores
- Newsletter Issue #640: Why Do They Want a Smaller iPad?
- A Brief Visit to the World of Sliding, Swiping and Zooming
- The Random iPhone 4S Rant
February 2012
- Is Apple Building a Larger Walled Garden for Mac Users?
- Assumptions, Assumptions and More Assumptions
- Newsletter Issue #639: Creating Bad Products
- The Mountain Lion Report: Too Quick?
- Analysts Secretly Want to Run Apple
- The Mountain Lion Report: Apple Doubles Down on iOS Integration
- The Mountain Lion Report: Some Developers Are Way Behind the Curve
- Newsletter Issue #638: Some Mountain Lion Odds and Ends
- Just When You Thought Apple Ran Out of Cats
- It's Not Just the PC Industry That's Being Hurt by the iPad
- So is Apple Really Going to Introduce a Small iPad?
- When Apple's Lawsuits Get More Coverage Than Apple's Products
- Newsletter Issue #637: More Solid Evidence of Android Fragmentation
- The Non-Predictions About the iPad 3
- The Tragic Fates of Microsoft and Nokia
- Consumer Reports Still Lives in a Bubble
- What Will You Do When You Want to Replace Your Computer?
- Newsletter Issue #636: Was This Another Apple Screw-Up?
- They Want to Rush the iPhone 5
- The Living in the Past Department: So Ultrabooks Are Something New?
- Did Apple Wait Too Long to Fix Final Cut Pro?
January 2012
- What They Forget About Apple's Factory Worker Problem
- Newsletter Issue #635: You Can't Have More than 100%: The Apple Can't Lose Report
- The Microsoft Still Has No Taste Report
- Apple Goes Up, Microsoft Goes Down
- The Apple Blowout Report: More Goodies to Chew Over
- Apple's Prospects: Not Necessarily About Apple's Financials
- Newsletter Issue #634: The Apple Integrated TV and the Bandwidth Land Mine
- Apple Saves the Backs of Our Children
- The Microsoft Death Watch: The Clock is Ticking
- Does Tim Cook Need to Watch His Back?
- Another Part of the Apple Integrated TV Equation
- Newsletter Issue #633: Will the Next iPad Spring Any Surprises?
- Another Look at Apple's Quiet Success
- Another Pathetic Attempt to Read the Minds of Apple Executives
- The Never-Ending Apple Connected TV Discussion
- Frightened Companies Try to Upstage Apple Connected TV
- Newsletter #632: Apple Continues to Cast a Huge Shadow Over the Tech Industry
- Checking Out Possible 2012 Macs
- Here We Go Again: The Apple Connected TV
- Does Apple Need a Cheap iPad?
- Can the iOS Get Too Confusing?
- Newsletter Issue #631: Just When is Your Mac Too Old?
December 2011
- Attention Apple: Please Don't Make it Too Complicated
- They Wait for Apple to Fail
- GoDaddy and the SOPA Brouhaha
- Will There Be Any Big Surprises from Apple in 2012?
- Newsletter Issue #630: All-In-One Printing on the Cheap
- AT&T's Big Blunder
- Here We Go Again: First Apple, Then Microsoft
- The Apple Lawsuit Report: The Little Things Do Count
- Why Buy an Apple Product Now When We'll Have Something Better in Six Months?
- Newsletter Issue #629: How Much Mediocrity Are You Willing to Tolerate?
- The End of Instant Messaging Confusion?
- Microsoft Outlook 2011 for the Mac -- Still Not Quite Usable
- Yet Another Microsoft Musical Chairs Shell Game
- Does Apple Need to Rush to Fix iOS Problems?
- Newsletter Issue #628: Has HP Suddenly Become Google's Worst Nightmare?
- Do Patent Lawsuits Make Tech Gear More Expensive?
- Is the iPad Losing its Luster?
- The Never Ending Apple Television Report
- Apple and Bombast
- Newsletter Issue #627: Another Look at the Messy iTunes Universe
- What Do You Do with Your Personal Computer?
- Talking About R&D
November 2011
- Do They Deserve Free Advertising?
- So When is it Good Enough?
- Newsletter Issue #626: Does an iPhone 4 to iPhone 4S Upgrade Make Sense?
- Have You Been Banned by iTunes Match?
- So This is What Microsoft Calls Simple?
- Is Apple Becoming Number One in PC Sales?
- So Where Are the Profits?
- Newsletter Issue #625: So Are People Really Picking Android Over the iPhone?
- Can the Kindle Fire Light Your Fire?
- The Great iTunes Match Runaround
- Some Offhand iTunes Match Observations
- The Price of a Computing Appliance
- The One Paragraph iTunes Match Report
- Newsletter Issue #624: Those Silly Surveys
- They Attempt to Figure Out Apple's Current Management Scheme
- Confirmed! Adobe Flash on Life Support
- Did Consumer Reports Finally Get the iPhone Right?
- Some Apps Can't Play in the Sandbox
- Newsletter Issue #623: The Batterygate Myth
- So is Apple Changing or Not?
- So Are We Ready to Bid Adieu to the Mac Pro?
- Something About Apple Influences
- The Apple Connected TV Report: Just What Did Steve Jobs Crack?
October 2011
- Newsletter Issue #622: The iOS Report: Will Apple Run Out of Things to Change?
- A Watershed for Macs in the Enterprise
- The Quiet Mac Revolution
- Here We Go Again: Is Apple Readying a Connected TV?
- Is There a Steve Jobs Backlash?
- Newsletter Issue #621: Macs Flourish in the Post-PC Era
- The iCloud Report: Did I Say Cloudy?
- Wall Street Eats Their Own Dog Food
- The Apple Financials Report: An Apple Miss?
- So Why Should Apple Change?
- Newsletter Issue #620: The iOS 5 Report: Did I Say Glitchy?
- Is iCloud a Better MobileMe?
- Returning to the Mac
- Raising Expectations About Apple
- One Million iPhone 4S Customers Can't Be Wrong
- Newsletter Issue #619: Apple's Leadership and the Lessons of History
- About Steve Jobs: The World is a Colder Place
- The iPhone Report: So Much for "Minor" Updates
- In Memorian: Steve Jobs
- Let's Discuss the iPhone: Did Apple Meet Your Expectations?
- More Nonsense From the Wacky Online World
- Newsletter Issue #618: Don't Forget That Apple,
Amazon and Google Have Different Business Plans
September 2011
- About the Amazon Kindle Fire
- The Shoot From the Hip Report: The Apple Media Event
- A Close Encounter with a Netbook
- The iPhone Report: 10 Million Versus 20 Million
- Newsletter Issue #617: Are We Paying Too Much Attention to Apple?
- The News that Makers of iPhone "Killers" Don't Want to Hear
- The Lion as Vista Report
- The Faded Report: A Fall iPad Update
- The Netflix Report: Qwik Who?
- Newsletter Issue #616: Should We Be Gushing Over Windows 8?
- The Microsoft Does it Again Report
- Of Lion and Windows 8
- The Apple Cult of Personality
- The iPhone Report: Should We Lower Expectations for an iPhone 5?
- Newsletter Issue #615: The Promise (Or Threat) of Windows 8
- The Lion Report: Did Apple Do Too Much?
- Copying the Look and the Feel
- What About An A6 Mac?
- They Assume the Worst About Apple
- Newsletter Issue #614: More Curious Product Reviews
- Did Apple Release Lion Too Early?
- The AT&T/T-Mobile Merger Report
August 2011
- Does the iPhone Need a Major Upgrade?
- Possible Samsung Solutions to Escape the Wrath of Apple
- Newsletter Issue #613: The Steve Jobs Resignation Fallout: Acceptance
- My Personal Encounters with Steve Jobs
- The One Paragraph Steve Jobs Resignation Report
- Are iPad Knockoffs on Life Support?
- The Lion Report: Deep Into the Second Month
- Where Does the PC Industry Go?
- Newsletter Issue #612: Apple's Competitors Take Another Fall
- The Android OS Alliance Begins to Fracture
- Some 10.7.1 Odds and Ends
- Now About That Walled Garden
- Google's Desperate Move to Save Android
- Newsletter Issue #611: Strange Days Indeed
- Bottom Line Reasons to Buy Apple Gear
- An Empty-Headed TV Commercial
- OS X Lion, Recovery and Reinstallation
- Apple Rises as the PC Industry Stagnates
- Newsletter Issue #610: Can You Believe Those Product Reviews?
- Apple Continues to Marginalize the Mac Pro
- Apple Continues to Upset the High Price Myth
- Of Generic Tablets and Choppy Rides
- The Lion Report: Hits and Misses?
- Newsletter Issue #609: Say So Long to the Optical Drive
July 2011
- Why Android's Market Share Doesn't Matter
- The Lion Report: Keeping it Simple
- The Lion Report: The Recovery HD
- The Lion Report: More Odds and Ends
- Newsletter Issue #608: Apple, Google and Reality
- The Lion Report: So Why Isn't it Mac OS X Lion?
- The Lion Report: Look for the Rough Edges
- Soaring iPad and iPhone Sales Lead Apple's Quarterly Revenues
- Will Android Survive the Apple and Microsoft Taxes?
- Newsletter Issue #607: The Lion Report: Expect Some Wacky Reviews
- The Lion Report: Just the Facts Please!
- Microsoft: The Definition of Insanity?
- The Battle to Destroy Android
- Correcting Some Lion Misinformation
- Newsletter Issue #606: Some Mac Users Locked Out of Lion
- The iMac and Instant Gratification
- Why It's a Mistake for Apple to Release an iPad 3 This Year
- The Lion Report: Letting People Off Gently
- The Lion Report: Doing Without
- Newsletter Issue #605: More Stupid Apple Comments
- The Final Cut Pro X Controversy: Too Much Emotion?
June 2011
- Does Apple Want to Control Your iPhone Camera?
- So They Still Want Apple to Die
- Auto Makers Need to Talk to Apple
- Newsletter Issue #604: A Personal Tale of Apple Reliability
- Apple and Patents: King of the World?
- So Should the Apple TV Become a Real Apple TV?
- Apple Continues to Revolutionize the Software Industry
- More Apple Speculation: Sensible and Otherwise
- Newsletter Issue #603: The Media is Finally Noticing There Isn't a Tablet Market
- Are We Expecting Too Much From A Mac Refresh?
- Are Executives Disposable?
- Why Don't They Report the Rest of the Story?
- The iOS 5 Report: Mail Still Unfinished
- Newsletter Issue #602: Of Apple and Intellectual Property
- The iOS Report: The Fine-Tuning Has Begun
- Apple's Misguided Lion Upgrade Scheme
- The Microsoft Scared to Death Report
- The Lion Pricing Report: The Night Owl Was Right!
- Newsletter Issue #601: The Awful Truth About Those iPad Killers
- Microsoft's Version of Innovation or Something
- The Lion Report: OK, Keep it Cheap
- Apple's Plans Are Not So Cloudy Anymore
May 2011
- The Lawsuit Game: I'll Show You Mine, if You'll Show Me Yours
- Newsletter Issue #600: The WWDC Talk Intensifies
- The Microsoft Death Watch Report: More Demands for a New CEO
- Apple Becomes Proactive About Security
- The Yahoo! Email Bait and Switch
- So Is Apple a Religion?
- Newsletter Issue #599: Is There Really a Tablet Revolution?
- Power Grid Board Game Review 2
- So Just How Successful is the iPad 2?
- Can a "Late" iPhone Upgrade Hurt Apple?
- The World of Bad First Impressions
- The Chrome What?
- Newsletter Issue #598: Revisiting the Dangers of the Internet
- Apple's Competitors Can't Fight Cultural Icons
- The Microsoft Suicide Watch
- Microsoft and Skype: A Marriage Made in That Other Place?
- The Apple Processor Report: ARM Versus Intel?
- Newsletter Issue #597: Is This a Candidate for the Lamest Comment of the Week?
- The Microsoft Death Spiral Continues
- The Apple Security Report: So Are You Happy Now?
- Apple Continues to Marginalize the Mac Pro
- Time to Replace Your Mac?
- Newsletter Issue #596: Welcome to the Wild World of Non-Stories
April 2011
- Apple, Auto Makers, and Regular Updates
- We Just Can't Believe the Simple Answers
- Can You Live Without a Retina Display?
- So What Does Apple Really Know About You?
- Newsletter Issue #595: Understanding the Magic and Mystery of the iPad
- Why Buy a New PC When You Get a Mac?
- Apple Plays the Game: Beat the Street!
- Some Media Pundits Still Don't Understand Why Apple is Successful
- What the White iPhone Tells Us About the iPhone 5
- Newsletter Issue #594: The App Store Versus the Competition
- Are We Now Entering the Post-PC Era?
- Why Outlook 2011 for the Mac Remains a Nightmare
- Flip Becomes a Flop
- Attention Apple Critics: Change Your Expectations!
- Newsletter Issue #593: Should You Believe Industry Analyst Projections?
- Apple Doesn't Have to Be Number One
- Another Wacky Theory: Apple Will Overtake Sirius XM
- Why Do You Believe Consumer Reports?
- You Sure Apple Can't Deliver the Goods?
- Newsletter Issue #592: Apple's Final Solution for People Who Hate PCs
- Android is Fragmented Except When It's Not
March 2011
- So What is Apple Really Selling?
- The iPad 2: A Fast and Dirty First Look
- Is Apple Delaying Key Hardware Releases?
- Newsletter Issue #591: How Not to Smother the iPad
- Dreaming of an iMac Pro
- Things We Don't Care About
- The Threat of the iPad 2
- AT&T's Eternal Search for Cell Tower Salvation
- Newsletter Issue #590: And Now There Are Three
- Does Lion Dumb Down the Mac OS?
- Does Thunderbolt Signal the Potential End to the Mac Pro?
- Welcome to the World of Unrealistic Expectations
- How to Really Make Your iPad Your Only Mobile Computing Device
- Newsletter Issue #589: Apple Exploits Our Need for Instant Gratification
- The iOS Report: There's Something to be Said for Predictability
- The iOS Report: The Refinements Keep on Coming
- Are the New MacBook Pros Lacking Something?
- The Real Victims of the iPad Revolution
- Newsletter Issue #588: Apple Critics Make More into Less
- Consumer Reports and Deceptive Reviews
- All's Right at Apple as Steve Jobs Hosts iPad 2 Event
- Is Apple Ushering in an Era of Cheap Gear?
- Are Macs Fast Enough Yet?
February 2011
- Newsletter Issue #587: Some iPhone Follies
- Apple Making Waves Again
- The Mac OS X Lion Report: Back in the News? (Revised!)
- Can't You Live Without an Apple Product Update? (Revised!)
- Steve Jobs and Tabloid Journalism
- Newsletter Issue #586: Some Fast and Dirty New Apple Product Speculations
- So Who is Number One Now?
- What Mac Features Do You Want to Give Up?
- Cheaper This and Cheaper That
- Apple Rumors Trump Another Industry Event
- Newsletter Issue #585: Yet Another Effort to Turn Two Failures into a Success
- Outlook for Mac 2011 — Still Not Ready for Prime Time
- How Not to Compete with Apple
- Some Hints About the Next iPhone?
- Apple Overcomes Steve Jobs Sick Leave Loss!
- Newsletter Issue #584: The iPad as a Subplot
- So Do You Really Need a Verizon iPhone?
- Can the iPad Save the Daily Newspaper?
- Are You Ready to Survive Without a Mac?
- Why Do They Want Apple to Fail?
January 2011
- Newsletter Issue #583: Apple Inc. Stories Get the Better of Us
- The World of Wireless Carrier Tyranny
- Do We Need More iPad Versions?
- In Search of a Millisecond
- Return to the World of Wacky Apple Theories
- Newsletter Issue #582: The Eternal Search for Apple's Table Scraps
- Some Petty iOS Annoyances
- Are There Any Certainties About Apple's 2011 Products?
- The Apple Financials Report: No Steve Jobs is Not the Only Employee
- Apple and Steve Jobs: It’s Not the End of the World
- Newsletter Issue #581: How Apple Killed the CES
- Are You Dreaming About the Future MacBook?
- Is This a New Year's Resolution?
- The Verizon iPhone Report: Taking the Easy Way Out
- A Verizon iPhone: Will it Make a Difference?
- Newsletter Issue #580: Reasons Why the Mac App Store Will Be a Smashing Success
- The Mac App Store: Welcome to a Brand New World — Maybe!
- Welcome to the Week of iPad Pretenders
- Another Memo to Consumer Reports: What About the OS?
- The Verizon iPhone: In Search of Common Sense
- Newsletter Issue #579: Mac Virus Fear Mongers Are Up to Their Usual Tricks
December 2010
- Speculation, Not Rumors
- Are They Reporting or Are They Copying?
- What Price Lion?
- When is a Rival Not a Rival?
- Newsletter Issue #578: Where Apple's Wi-Fi Router Failed to Provide the Solution
- Using Alleged New Cases to Unearth Apple Secrets
- The Lion Report: Will Apple Finally Fix Long-Time Problems?
- Is Apple's Hobby Losing its Hobby Status?
- Does Anyone Remember Competence?
- Newsletter Issue #577: On the Trail of Apple Circa 2011
- Welcome to Patent Soup
- Does Apple Want to Rethink the User Interface?
- Is Android On the Ropes?
- So is AT&T the Pits?
- Newsletter Issue #576: They Make It Up as They Go Along
- A Fast and Dirty Look at Apple in 2011
- A Look at Crazy or Incompetent Corporate Executives
- Complaining Without Cause
- The Eternal "Microsoft is Clueless" Argument
- Newsletter Issue #575: So What About that Mac Convertible?
- Do You Think You Can Run Apple Better than Steve Jobs?
- Is the MacBook Air the Future of Portable Macs?
- The Mac OS X Lion Report: Where Are the Compelling Features?
November 2010
- Apple Versus Google: Welcome to the World of Buyer's Remorse
- Newsletter Issue #574: Quick, to the Cloud!
- A Look at the PC Junk Factor
- Well, There's No Accounting for Taste
- The iOS Report: More Missing Features
- iOS 4.2: The Eternal Wish for More
- Newsletter Issue #573: Does Anyone Not Sell the iPad?
- Yes, Folks, Apple Can Price Aggressively
- Apple and Business Revisited
- Not About the Beatles
- The Optical Drive is Next to Go
- Newsletter Issue #572: Are You Really Waiting for a Verizon iPhone?
- Apple and Adobe — The Conflict Continues
- Consumer Reports Continues Taking a Schizophrenic Approach to Macs
- Do Mac Users Care Too Much About the Little Things?
- Does Apple Care About the Enterprise?
- Newsletter Issue #571: The Eternal Email Dilemma
- Apple Ditches Technologies Right and Left
- Did Microsoft Repeat the Mistakes of the Past with Windows Phone 7?
- Ten or More Reasons to Ignore Another Apple Analysis
- Apple Doesn't Have to Be First to Succeed!
- Newsletter Issue #570: Apple and Microsoft's Interests Come Together Again
October 2010
- The Critics Are Losing the Apple Price Argument
- Wacky Apple Acquisition Targets
- The Apple Control Freak Report
- The Mac OS 10.7 Lion Report: Don't Lose the Good Stuff!
- Newsletter Issue #569: Another Finger for Flash and Hard Drives Too
- The Mac OS X Lion Report: Do You Really Need iOS Features?
- The Mac OS X Lion Report: So Where's the New Finder!
- No, Steve Jobs' Comments About the Android OS Were Not Refuted!
- The Apple Financials Report: Confounding The Critics
- Newsletter Issue #568: The Mac OS X Lion Report:
Do You Really Want Things to be Difficult? - The Mac OS 10.7 "Lion" Report: Fix File Management
- Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Give Up on the Mac
- The Microsoft Smoke and Mirrors Report
- Did Apple Just Sell a Record Number of Macs?
- Newsletter Issue #567: Microsoft/Adobe? Spare Me
- Don't Pay Attention to Non-Apple Numbers
- Microsoft Outlook for Mac — Not Quite There
- Yes, Folks, the iPad is an Icon
- Are Smartphones Now Commodities?
- Newsletter Issue #566: The iPad is Cannibalizing PC Sales Except When it's Not
- The Media May Be Figuring Out the Shortcomings of those Killer Products
September 2010
- Apple's Top Down Road to the Enterprise
- Keeping Up with the Next iPad
- Are You Sure You Want an Open System?
- Newsletter Issue #565: The Apple Dodges More Bullets Report
- The iPad Killer Window of Opportunity Shortens
- The Adobe Flash Fiction Report
- So the iPad is the Cheaper Alternative
- Another We Know Better Than Apple Report
- Newsletter Issue #564: Apple's Change of Attitude
- In Search of the iPad Killer
- So Microsoft is the Good Guy Now?
- The Mac OS X Report: The Features We Lost
- The Mac OS X Report: Ten Years and One Month
- Newsletter Issue #563: Apple and Silly Changes
- Did Apple Head Off The Feds at the Pass?
- The PC Industry's Worst Nightmare
- Is Apple TV the Bee's Knees?
- So is it Safe to Talk About Macs Now?
- Newsletter Issue #562: The Apple Hubris Report
- Some of the Less Positive Aspects of the Apple Event
- The Apple Two Less Things Report
- Make it Elegant or Make it Cheap!
August 2010
- Is the Mac OS Dying?
- Newsletter Issue #561: Is This Why We Should Hate AT&T?
- The Net Neutrality Greed Argument
- The September 7th Apple Event Occurs on September 1st
- Are You Ready to Give Up Your Mac?
- So Much for Stagnating Mac Growth
- Newsletter Issue #560: Adobe Fails Once Again to Answer the Flash Challenge
- Apple Exposes Most Pundits as Fools!
- The Apple Killer Reality Check
- Welcome to the World of Instant Success
- Does the World Need Another Mac Email App?
- Newsletter Issue #559: Will They Ever Start Asking the Tough Questions?
- Do the Browser Wars Still Matter?
- Update! The Adobe Half-a-Loaf Report
- Of Blu-ray and Document Pinning
- Can One Magazine Review Vitamins and Personal Computers?
- Newsletter Issue #558: Facing the Truth About Apple
- Why Isn’t the iPhone Made in the USA?
- The Apple Must Win for the iPhone to Survive Myth
- The Mac on a Roll Report
- The Eternal Apple/Media Disconnect
- Newsletter Issue #557: More Wackos Criticize Apple!
July 2010
- The Apple and AMD Rumors Persist
- So is iPhone Jailbreaking Now a Good Thing?
- At Last! Apple Revitalizes the Mac
- Update! So is the iPad a PC?
- Newsletter Issue #556: Welcome to the Ministry of Silly Apple Rumors
- Consumer Reports Can't Be All Things to All People
- Yes, Folks, Macs Are Still Successful!
- So is Apple Under a Cloud?
- Smartphone Makers Caught Lying About Apple!
- Newsletter Issue #555: Antennagate: Facts Don't Mean a Thing
- Update! The iOS 4.0.1 Report
- Serving the Interests of Apple's Competitors
- Surviving the 24-Hour News Cycle
- Apple Gets on the Bad Side of Consumer Reports
- Newsletter Issue #554: Is the Public Turning Against Apple?
- Is the iPod Dying?
- Problems, Problems, Problems All Day Long!
- So Much for the iPad's Impact to Mac Sales
- The iOS 4 Report: Sometimes it Pays to Start Over
- Newsletter Issue #553: A Fable of the Secret Handshake
- Apple Feeds the Haters
June 2010
- Apple and Verizon Wireless Revisited
- Dell Stockholders Deserve a Refund!
- Reading the Apple Tea Leaves
- Newsletter Issue #552: So Apple is Now the Hated Company
- Waiting for iOS 4.1
- Adobe Wants it Both Ways
- So Now Apple Controls the Stock Market
- Some Odds and Ends About iOS 4
- Newsletter Issue #551: Can They Really Be So Dumb?
- The Apple Should Have Known Report
- Has Apple Run Out of Mac OS X Features?
- So Much for Apple Abandoning the Mac!
- Another Case of Reviewing Products Without Using Them
- Newsletter Issue #550: Does Anyone Believe that Apple is Giving Up the Mac?
- Attention Verizon Wireless: Have You Heard of Dumping?
- Will Safari 5's Reader Feature Kill Web Ads?
- The iPhone 4 Report: Chipping Away Problems
- The WWDC Report: An iPhone or a Tricorder?
- Newsletter Issue #549: The Verdict: Jobs is Rational, Ballmer is Otherwise
- So is AT&T Ripping Off Data Users?
- The Truth According to Steve Jobs
- Yes, Adobe Can Survive Without Flash
May 2010
- The iPad Report: Beginning to Outsell Macs
- Newsletter Issue #548: So is Apple Really in Legal Trouble?
- The Feature Bloat Report: Do You Really Need All That?
- Apple Confronts the Consequences of Success
- Declaring the Success of Apple's Competitors
- More Anti-Apple Silliness
- Newsletter Issue #547: Those Wacky Apple Critics
- The Apple Ecosystem: So How Much Control Do You Need?
- Does Apple Understand the Consequences to Your Eyesight?
- So is Apple the Best?
- Is the Grass Really Greener Elsewhere?
- Newsletter Issue #546: How About Law & Order: Silicon Valley?
- The Night Owl Chooses Between the iPhone and the iPad
- The iPhone Prototype Conspiracy Report
- The iPhone Report: Where's the Interface Consistency?
- Apple Versus Adobe: The "Can't We Just Get Along?" Argument
- Newsletter Issue #545: The iPhone Report: Did Apple Lose the Surprise Factor?
- The iPad Report: A Master at Consumption
- So Has Apple Become Your Enemy?
- Of Sensational News and Outlandish Theories
- Get Ready for the Spin!
- Newsletter Issue #544: Consumer Reports Wears its Mac Ignorance on its Sleeve
April 2010
- The Steve Jobs Blog: An Honest Statement or Just More Spin?
- Can We Talk About the Mac Again?
- The Right to Know Versus Checkbook Journalism
- Yes, Folks, Apple Has the Right to Fire People Who Break an NDA!
- Newsletter Issue #543: Yes, the iPhone is a Personal Computer Too
- Yet Another iPad Story
- Apple's Battle Against Software Mediocrity
- The Apple Financials Report: The Critics Blow it Again!
- Attention Apple Customers: Do You Feel Shackled?
- Newsletter Issue #542: Gartner and IDC Need to Get their Figures Straight
- The iPhone 4.0 Report: Developers Need to Get With the Program
- Apple's Naysayers Find Bad News in Everything
- Are You Using a "Sub-standard" App?
- Has Apple Forgotten the Mac OS? (Updated!)
- Newsletter Issue #541: So is Apple At War with Developers?
- The iPhone 4.0 Report: Seven Out of 100 Ain't Bad
- The iPad Report: The New Human/Machine Relationship
- Forget the iPhone OS! What About the Next Mac OS?
- The iPad Report: So How Successful is Successful?
- Newsletter Issue #540: The iPad Report: The Negatives Are Cut from the Same Cloth
- iPad Reviews Seem Cut from the Same Cloth
March 2010
- Should Printer Makers Fear the iPad?
- Yet Another Commentary About Wacky Apple Critics
- The 10.6.3 Release is a Whale of an Update!
- Newsletter Issue #539: Apple's New Campaign: PR by the Word
- Mac Myths Just Won't Go Away
- Remembering Mac OS X
- The Safety Through Obscurity Myth
- The Mac Power User/User Disconnect
- Newsletter Issue #538: Of iPad Preorders and Tea Leaves
- The Great Multitasking Myth
- About an iPhone Case: A Personal Story
- Will the 2015 Mac be a Mac?
- The Enemy of My Enemy Revisited
- Newsletter Issue #537: More Tech Pundits Fail at the Job
- So is the Mac at Death's Door?
- The Snow Leopard Report: Is it Ready Yet for Prime Time?
- Reviewing Products They've Never Used
- Chasing Fact and Fiction About Apple's Future
- Newsletter Issue #536: The Silly Season Starts Early
- The App Store Report: What About an Exit Button?
- Now It's Inevitable: Flash is Dying!
- Innovation by Lawsuit
- An iPhone 4.0 Wish List
February 2010
- Newsletter Issue #535: When is a Story Not a Story?
- It's the Critics Versus the Users
- The Great Browser Race to Absurdity
- Apple's Iron Fist
- An Apple Reliability Reality Check
- Newsletter Issue #534: About Control From Apple and Google
- Should Microsoft Dump Internet Explorer?
- Does Apple Need to Rush 10.7?
- Is it Too Late for Apple to Amaze Us?
- A Few Words About the iPad's Biggest Competitor
- Newsletter Issue #533: Just What is Microsoft's Game?
- The iPad Report: The Premature Rants Continue
- The iTunes Profit Myth
- With Apple It's Rarely About the Features
- The iPad Report: Now About Multitasking
- Newsletter Issue #532: The Waiting for Apple to Fail Report
- The Search Engine Report: Hey Apple, Why Not More Choices?
- The 27-inch iMac Flickering Report
- Apple's Not-So-Secret Plot to Change Technology Standards
- Apple's Other Advertising Partners
January 2010
- Newsletter Issue #531: The iPad Report: The Questions Keep on Coming
- The i-What? Questions Persist About the iPad
- The iPad Report: Apple Strives to Exceed Media Expectations
- The iPhone, AT&T and Verizon Wireless: What Should You Believe?
- Apple Continues to Make Money Hand Over Fist
- Newsletter Issue #530: Of Apple Versus Google Versus Microsoft
- The Myths About Apple Keep on Coming
- Apple or a Third Party?
- So Do We Really Know Everything About Apple's January 27th Event?
- Does Windows 7 Make a Difference?
- Newsletter Issue #529: Mac Pricing: It's a Question of Value
- Apple's Sales Figures: Whom Do You Trust?
- A Look at Apple Rumors for 2010
- More Uncritical Media Assumptions
- So How Does Apple Fill Product Gaps?
- Newsletter Issue #528: The Deaf Ears of Apple and Microsoft
- Can Apple Learn Something from the Google Nexus One?
- Just What is Google Selling?
- Does Microsoft Have the Stupidest Ads on the Planet?
- The iSlate Report: So Where Does Apple's Creativity End?
- Newsletter Issue #527: Giving the Magic Mouse a Second Chance
December 2009
- How About A Tinier Mac Pro?
- Never Accept the Inevitable!
- Have You Noticed? Apple Saved the Desktop Computer
- Attention Mac Users: Welcome to the World of Placebo Remedies
- Newsletter Issue #526: In Search of the iPad, iSlate or iTablet
- Patent Trolling or Intellectual Property?
- The 10.7 Report: More of the Same?
- Can You Trust an Upgrade?
- The Apple Hardware Report: What Will 2010 Bring?
- Newsletter Issue #525: The iMac Report: Some Tiny Irritants
- Ho-Hum! Another Tech Industry Antitrust Lawsuit
- The 27-inch iMac Aftermath: Does Apple Ship Too Early?
- The iPhone Report: No, It's Not the Map!
- Apple's 27-inch iMac Problem
- Newsletter Issue #524: More About the Great Apple/Google Battle to the Death
- Is the iMac the First Apple High Definition TV?
- Google Chrome: Does the World Need Another Browser?
- Yet Another Reviewing the Reviewers
- Of Apple and Acquisitions
- Newsletter Issue #523: A Couple of Bugs They Don't Talk About!
- The Quad-Core 27-inch iMac: The Night Owl's First Look
- Does Apple Exert Too Much Control?
- Can You Survive Without a Desktop Mac?
November 2009
- Does Apple Build the Gear You Want?
- Newsletter Issue #522: The Mac OS and Windows Are Not the Same!
- The Apple Tax Revisited
- The Great AT&T/Verizon Wireless Smackdown
- Does the World Really Need Mac Clones?
- Has the App Store Jumped the Shark?
- Newsletter Issue #521: Some Things that Apple Gets Wrong
- Microsoft's Typical Excuse: We'll Make it Good Next Year!
- A Few Apple Annoyances
- They Hear But Do Not See
- Microsoft Loses the Windows 7 Upgrade Battle
- Newsletter Issue #520: Journalists Spend Too Much Time
Looking in the Mirror When Writing About Apple - The Fake Steve Jobs Becomes a Fake Tech Journalist
- The Dangers of the Unauthorized Use of Apple Products
- Where Microsoft's Dominance Fails
- The One Paragraph 10.6.2 Report
- Is Consumer Reports Discovering the Mac?
- Newsletter Issue #519: Are Speed Bumps Hitting the Wall?
- About that Silly 10.6.2 Speculation
- Apple and Microsoft: It's All About the Money
- Does Apple Really Build What You Want?
- Of Apple Rumors and Patent Filings
- Newsletter Issue #518: Apple's Magic Mouse is an Acquired Taste
October 2009
- Apple's Critics Live in the Wrong Decade
- We Return to the Cheap Mac Equation
- Reviewing the Reviewers: Mac Versus Windows
- And Now for Some Good News About Apple
- Newsletter Issue #517: Windows 7's Worst Enemy: Microsoft!
- Is the Mac Pro on Life Support?
- Apple Lives in Another Universe!
- The Apple Hardware Report: Make it Better, Not Cheaper!
- Apple's Financials: A Conspiracy?
- Newsletter Issue #516: Apple and the Press: Stop the Manipulation
- A Windows Disadvantage They Don't Talk About!
- Apple and the Lost Data Syndrome
- One of the Key Lessons of the Microsoft/Sidekick Failure!
- The Microsoft Death Watch: They Can't Do Anything Right!
- Newsletter Issue #515: Why Should Anyone Trust Microsoft?
- Did the Dean of Tech Journalists Gloss Over Windows 7 Problems?
- Should Apple Abandon AT&T?
- New FTC Rules May Stop Fake Windows Testimonials
- Apple and Flash: Still Missing in Action
- Newsletter Issue #514: So is Snow Leopard the Most Reliable Mac OS Ever?
- The Microsoft Universe Gets Wackier and Wackier
September 2009
- Why an Apple Tablet?
- Microsoft and Browser Choice: A Solution or a Trick?
- How Can They Argue with Two Billion Downloads?
- Newsletter Issue #513: Apple and the Media: The Psycho Talk Never Stops
- The Mac Hardware Report: About those Audio Jacks!
- Apple in the Era of 24/7 News
- Service Pack or Major Upgrade?
- Is Microsoft Afraid of the Turf Wars?
- Newsletter Issue #512: Should Microsoft Stockholders Request a Refund?
- The Snow Leopard Report: How Much Abuse Should You Accept?
- The Cheap Mac Equation Revisited
- The Snow Leopard Report: Still Safe From Malware?
- Are Tiger to Snow Leopard Upgraders Violating the User License?
- Newsletter Preview #511: If They Give It Away, They Still Complain!
- Is Your Computer Broken Again?
- Apple's Music Event and the Rumor Sites
- The One Paragraph Apple Music Event Report
- So Maybe You Don't Need Snow Leopard!
- Crafting Apple in Your Own Image
- Newsletter Preview #510: Yet Another Microsoft Conspiracy Theory
- How Long Does Microsoft Get Away with Almost Good Enough?
- The Apple Media Event Report: The Speculation Rolls In
- The Snow Leopard Report: Still Correcting the Misinformation
August 2009
- The Snow Leopard Report: Are We Expecting Too Much?
- Newsletter #509 Preview: The Night Owl's Snow Leopard Review
- The Snow Leopard Versus Windows 7 Report: Where's the Trust?
- The Snow Leopard Versus Windows 7 Report: Marketing
- Not a Snow Leopard Review
- Apple Fires Another Torpedo Across Microsoft's Bow
- Newsletter #508 Preview: Now About Apple's Control Over the User Interface
- Another Apple Secret: Keep the Apps Cheap!
- More Rantings of the Tech Media's Lunatic Fringe
- More Silliness About Apple
- Apple and the World of Paranoia
- Newsletter #507 Preview: Microsoft Continues to
Believe Changing Names Means Something - What Microsoft Doesn't Know About Operating System Upgrades!
- Another Reality Check: Tall Tales You Can Ignore!
- Is Apple Caving to the Antiglare Brigade?
- So Will Apple/Google Dwarf Apple/Microsoft?
- Newsletter #506 Preview: Isn't it Time for the
Mac Media to Stop Using the Word "Mac"? - Is the Tech Media Afraid of Microsoft?
- The Operating System Wars: Decisions, Decisions
- The Operating System Wars: So Who Really Wants Windows 7?
- Apple and Google: Still Friends?
- Newsletter #505 Preview: The End of PowerPC Support is Close at Hand
July 2009
- Welcome to the World of Ya-Bing!
- Is the iTablet a Product in Search of a Purpose?
- The Microsoft Death Watch: A Microsoft Store?
- Be Careful What You Believe About Apple!
- Newsletter #504 Preview: The Microsoft Death
Watch: Businesses Bet on the Wrong Horse - The Night Owl Reveals Apple's Plot to Control the PC Industry!
- Does Apple Have a Magic Formula?
- Apple's Financials: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
- The iPhone 3GS Report: A Peeve or Two
- Newsletter #503 Preview: Why Can't the Tech Industry Keep Up with Apple?
- Is Apple Really Afraid of Microsoft's Laptop Hunter Ads?
- About Apple's Forthcoming Financials: Just Ignore the Analysts
- The Beleaguered Microsoft: The Evidence Mounts
- The iPhone 3GS Report: A Second Visit
- Newsletter #502 Preview: Despite What Some
Troubleshooting Sites Say, Some Things Really Do Just Work - The Ongoing Efforts to Kill the iPhone
- Memo to Google: It's About the Applications, Stupid!
- The Mac and the PC: Maybe There is No Comparison!
- The Night Owl's iPhone 3GS Odyssey
- Newsletter #501 Preview: Microsoft's Philosophy:
Keep the Lies Coming and People Will Believe Them - The Mac Hardware Report: No More Price Cuts for Now
- The Mac Hardware Report: The Result of Microsoft's Ads?
June 2009
- The Snow Leopard Report: Ready for Greatness or Boredom?
- Prices, Profits and the Bill of Materials
- Newsletter #500 Preview: Is AT&T the Enemy to Continued iPhone Success?
- The Microsoft Rip-off Report: Pay and Pay Again
- The iPhone Report: Casual Observations on the 3.0 Upgrade
- How Much Does Steve Jobs Really Do for Apple These Days?
- Do You Still Believe the Experts?
- Newsletter #499 Preview: The Latest iPhone Rollout Shows Apple Hasn't Lost its Mojo
- So Maybe Apple Didn't Cave on Pricing
- The iPhone 3.0 Report: Let the Lame Reviews Begin
- The Snow Leopard Report: The Irritants Remain
- The Snow Leopard Report: Features or Refinements?
- Newsletter #498 Preview: The Browser Wars and Microsoft's Ongoing Deception
- Apple Still Won't Play the Game -- Well, Mostly
- After the WWDC IV: Get Ready for the Silliness
- After the WWDC III: The Good and the Bad
- After the WWDC II: Did I Say Cheaper?
- Newsletter #497 Preview: After the WWDC
- Apple Expands Campaign to Build Third-Generation iPhone Buzz
- The Snow Leopard Report: The Law of Diminishing Expectations
- iTunes 8.2: Let the Torture Begin
- Apple Paves the Way for the Return of Steve Jobs
May 2009
- Newsletter #496 Preview: Finding the Right
Insecticide for the Mac Clone Insect Population - Are Computers Getting Too Fast?
- The Zune HD: Another Bullet Point Design from Microsoft
- Is Apple Afraid of Palm?
- A Tablet Mac? Give Me a Break!
- Newsletter #495 Preview: Will the Media Ever Get Off the Netbook Craze?
- Microsoft Wants You to Believe All PCs Are the Same!
- Revisiting the Midrange Mac Minitower in a Down Economy
- So What About a Cheap Mac?
- The Dangers of Drawing Attention to Your Competitors
- Newsletter #494 Preview: Can We Really Trust the Cloud?
- Mac Reality Check: More Myth Busting
- Mac OS 10.5.7, Dumb Journalist Comments and Other Juicy Stuff
- The Night Owl Will Switch to Notebooks -- In Five Years!
- A Few Things Not to Expect From Apple
- Newsletter #493 Preview: Of Bill Gates and P.T. Barnum
- 21st Century Email Remains a Mess
- Warming Up to An Apple Netbook -- Maybe
- Welcome to the Silly Season: Spring 2009 Edition
- More Apple Netbook Speculation
- Newsletter #492 Preview: Microsoft Still Believes
it Can Fool All of the People All of the Time
April 2009
- On Raising Unreasonable Expectations
- The Media Designs Apple's Netbook
- Should Apple Rush Snow Leopard?
- The Apple Mind Readers Revisited
- Newsletter #491 Preview: Microsoft's Dreaded Secret: The Microsoft Tax
- Why You Shouldn't Accept a "No" from Apple
- So Apple Isn't Looking Very Beleaguered!
- Assuming Facts Not in Evidence
- How Should Apple Answer Microsoft's New Ad Campaign?
- Newsletter #490 Preview: Mac Support = Good; PC Support = Bad
- Memo to Apple: Ignore the Analysts
- A Look at the Apple Sales Spin Merchants
- About the Recent Steve Jobs Reports
- The FTC Needs to Investigate Microsoft!
- Newsletter #489 Preview: If Windows PCs Are So Good,
Why Does Microsoft Have to Lie About Them? - Is the Netbook a Bait and Switch Scheme?
- About Microsoft's Bridge to Nowhere
- Getting Used to Apple Without Steve Who?
- Mac Rumors Feed More Mac Rumors
- Newsletter #488 Preview: Microsoft's Unfortunate Attempts at Online Marketing
- Does it Really Matter When Snow Leopard Appears?
- More Potential Nightmares for Microsoft
March 2009
- The Virus Fear Merchants Still Don't Get the Mac
- The Night Owl Examines Some Time-Wasting Headlines
- Newsletter #487 Preview: Does the Ultimate Mac Keyboard Come From IBM?
- Is it Time to Fire Apple's Simplicity Police?
- Apple's Stock on the Rise: What's Wall Street Telling Us?
- The Next iPhone: Another Disposable Gadget?
- Welcome to the Silly Season: Has Apple's Creativity Left?
- Newsletter Issue #486 Preview: The Internet Explorer 8 Failure
- Apple's Mantra: Being Best Doesn't Mean Being First
- The Netbook Won't Kill Personal Computers!
- iPhone 3.0: The Philosophy of More!
- Do the Mac Rumor Sites Have Near-Total Freedom?
- Newsletter Issue #485 Preview: Microsoft Still Doesn't Get It!
- Is it Too Late for an iPhone 3.0 Wish List?
- Is Apple Losing Its Innovative Spirit?
- Reading the Tea Leaves About Apple Product Intros
- The Plain Fact: Mac Users Love to Complain
- Newsletter Issue #484 Preview: You Can't Compare a Mac and PC By Price Alone!
- Is Microsoft Ready to Lose the Browser Wars?
- A Memo to People Who Don't Like the Latest Mac Upgrades
- Apple Gets Greener -- And It's Not About Money!
- A Look at Apple's Golden Opportunity
- Newsletter Issue 483 Preview: Can Microsoft
Be Blamed for the World's Economic Crisis?
February 2009
- When Will Desktop Computers Be History?
- What if Computers Were Designed to Last?
- Safari 4: 150 Ways to Have Fun?
- Can We Just Stop Talking About Steve Jobs?
- Newsletter #482 Preview: Is Microsoft the Catch Up King?
- Do You Really Want to Sue Apple?
- Can You Believe Third-Party Apple Sales Estimates?
- Can Apple Blow It Before Microsoft Self Destructs?
- The Case of the Multiple Email Inboxes
- Newsletter #481 Preview: About the Dumb Things Microsoft Can Do
- Would the iPhone Work in Verizon Wireless's Stepford Culture?
- Another Cheap Apple Product Rumor
- What Apple Should Do Without Steve Jobs
- Attention Apple: Please Make Snow Leopard Free!
- Newsletter #480 Preview: Are Leopard Bugs a Thing of the Past at Long Last?
- The Products Apple Shouldn't Make!
- The iPhone and Lawsuits Revisited
- Apple and Six Years to Operating System Parity
- Some Good and Not-So-Good Updates For Apple
- Newsletter #479 Preview: Microsoft Has More to Fear Than Apple These Days
January 2009
- Does Apple Prefer Fair Weather Friends?
- The iPhone Report: Still Missing in Action
- Is There a Way to Simplify the Personal Computer?
- Is it Necessary to Revisit the Mac Malware Equation?
- Newsletter #478 Preview: Taking the Mac Seriously After 25 Years
- A Harsh Reality for Microsoft
- Apple Confounds the Skeptics All Over Again
- Apple Might Be Faring Better Than Expected
- Of Microsoft and the European Union
- Newsletter #477 Preview: No, the Sky Isn't Falling at Apple
- But is Steve Jobs Really Returning to Apple?
- The Crazy Demands of Apple's Critics
- Steve Jobs Confirms Serious Illness
- So Where Are The Missing Apple Desktops?
- Can Apple Speed Up PC to Mac Migration?
- Newsletter #476 Preview: Apple Confronts Yellow Journalism
- Is Apple Forgetting History?
- The Expo Report #2: A DRM-Free iTunes Music Library -- Should Microsoft Thank Apple?
- The Expo Report #1: Do You Prefer Tony Bennett to Steve Jobs?
- Was the Steve Jobs Health Admission Too Little Too Late?
- Newsletter #475 Preview: How Apple Might Avoid a 2009 Screwup
- Of Fixing Cars and Fixing Macs
December 2008
- The Apple CEO Succession Scheme
- Apple's Products -- But What About the Software?
- Is the Pressure Growing on Apple to Produce Cheap Gear?
- Newsletter #474 Preview: Is Apple Using Focus Group Testing?
- Is the Mac Mini a Bait and Switch Scheme?
- The Microsoft On-The-Skids Report
- Is Apple's Leadership Change in Progress?
- Will Apple Be Forced to Build Cheap Computers?
- Newsletter #473 Preview: More Leopard Annoyances
- The Macworld Expo Eulogy: Remember the Lessons of History
- The End of Macworld Expo Amid New Concerns Over Jobs' Health
- Mac OS 10.5.6 Update Arrives with Weird Installation Glitches
- In Search of a Story About Apple
- Newsletter #472 Preview: The Things That Continue to Go Wrong
- Matte Screens: I Still Don't Get It!
- How Not to Speed Up Your Mac!
- When Does Simple Become Complicated?
- The Night Owl's Favorite Mac
- Newsletter #471 Preview: Apple Doesn't Mind an Occasional Quiet Revolution
- Guess What: Macs Can Now Apply
- The Apple Beating the Odds Column
- Apple Doesn't Make Me-Too Products!
- Another Chapter in the Microsoft Death Watch
November 2008
- Newsletter #470 Preview: Not Everything From Apple Just Works!
- No, I Don't Need a Netbook
- About Apple's Price Matching Policy
- Apple's Annoying Policy of Security and Support Secrecy
- So Where's the Windows Only Label?
- Newsletter #469 Preview: Announcing the Night Owl's Microsoft Death Watch
- Apple Always Finds a Way to Annoy Customers
- Will Snow Leopard Arrive with the Snow?
- Can Apple Withstand the Recession?
- Can Apple Succeed in the Enterprise Without Compromise?
- Newsletter #468 Preview: A Casual Look at Snow Leopard Versus Windows 7
- Is Apple Auditioning Successors for Steve Jobs?
- Apple Circles the Wagons
- The Things We Now Take for Granted
- Microsoft Remains Divorced From Reality
- Newsletter #467 Preview: Is it Time to Ditch Desktops for Good?
- The Apple Hardware Report: Some Things Don't "Just Work"!
- The End of the Elite Generation
- The Apple Hardware Report: No More New Macs for 2008!
- So Where's the Next Apple Killer?
- Newsletter #466 Preview: A Hard Look at Some of Apple's Design Mistakes
October 2008
- The Snow Leopard Report: Recovering from Feature-Bloat
- Apple and the 50% Factor
- Memo to Apple: Please Update the Mac mini
- The Mac OS Clone Myth Revisited
- Newsletter #465 Preview: Celebrating Apple's Coming-of-Age Party
- Do You Really Want an Apple Label on All This Stuff?
- Apple Stays the Course
- Apple's Financials: Would You Buy Stock From These People?
- Another Look at What Apple Has Taken Away
- Newsletter #464 Preview: Microsoft Resorts to More Lies to Prop Up Vista
- What About a Modular Apple TV?
- So Where's the Major Product Transition, Apple?
- Apple's Notebook Update Mostly Ignores 17-inch MacBook Pro
- About All Those Apple Rumors
- Newsletter #463 Preview: Third Parties Still Offer Mac OS X's Missing Pieces
- How About a Real Business Mac?
- The Diminishing Hopes for a New Mac Minitower
- The Apple Product Announcement Waiting Game
- The Good News Won't Help Apple on Wall Street
- Newsletter #462 Preview: Is Apple Finally Learning How to Listen to You?
- Is Apple Running Out of Ideas?
- Is Apple At War with iPhone Developers?
September 2008
- Another Look at Missing iPhone Features
- In the World of Mac User Follies
- Newsletter #461 Preview: The Folly of Blaming Apple for All Your Cell Phone Problems
- Is Microsoft Preparing the Going Out of Business Sign?
- The App Store Rejection Column
- The iPhone 3G to the Rescue
- A Warning About Mac Security Fear Merchants
- Newsletter #460 Preview: Microsoft Tries Again and Again to Find Itself
- Don't Let Them Post Your Email on the Net!
- Should Mac Troubleshooting Sites Put Up a Warning Notice?
- The Mac OS 10.5.5 Update: Take Two Pills and Call Me in the Morning
- Apple's New Products: Don't Forget the Rest of the Story!
- Newsletter #459 Preview: The iPhone 2.1 Update: Did Apple Finally Get it Right?
- Why Microsoft Wants to Return to the 1990s
- Apple's Missing Feature
- Apple Rocks Again -- Sort Of
- Microsoft's New Ad Campaign Ignores Logic
- Newsletter #458 Preview: Twenty-Four Years Using Macs
- Does Apple Need an Information Czar?
- Apple's First Impression Dilemma
- Apple Hosts Special Event on Night Owl's Birthday
- Microsoft Apps and the Mac
August 2008
- Newsletter #457 Preview: No, Apple Isn't Going Downhill
- Apple Is Releasing Products Too Early!
- Wow This Computer is Really Running Slow Today!
- Is Something Rotten at Slate?
- The Mac Myth Report Revisited!
- Newsletter #456 Preview: The Apple Class Action Lawsuit Report
- Microsoft Resorts to Desperate Measures to Boost Vista
- Revisiting iPhone Reception Problems
- Is Steve Jobs Really Milking the Macintosh?
- The Apple Report: Yes, Most of the Time it Just Works!
- Newsletter #455 Preview: The Death of Power PC
Support is Coming Sooner Than You Think! - The Plight of the Apple Early Adopter
- Apple War Stories Revisited
- So is the iPhone 3G Really a Defective Product?
- The Tea Leaves Report: A Look at Apple's Major Product Transition
- Newsletter #454 Preview: Here We Go Again: Revisiting Mac Versus PC Prices
- Another Look At Apple Support Problems
- Memo to Steve Jobs: Don't Stop with MobileMe!
- Apple's Unfortunate Economy of Words
- The Leopard Report: My Personal Petty Mac Annoyances
- Newsletter #453 Preview: Consumer Reports Again
Shows How Not to Convert PC Users to Macs
July 2008
- The Personal Computer Chaos Theory
- Apple Walks the Tightrope
- Is Something Wrong with Apple?
- So Why is Wall Street Still Down on Apple?
- Newsletter #452 Preview: The Windows World Still Doesn't Get It!
- Apple Without Steve Jobs
- The MobileMe Wrecking Ball
- Apple's Financials: Finding a Way to Turn Good News to Bad
- The Inevitable Comparison: Apple's Financials and the Health of Steve Jobs
- Newsletter #451 Preview: Will Mac Misconceptions Never End?
- The iPhone Report: So Where Is That Critical Feature?
- Sometimes Apple Admits It's Wrong
- Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Clone Your Mac
- Just Another iPhone 3G Report: A Million Customers Can't Be Wrong!
- Newsletter #450 Preview: The iPhone 3G: Three Times a Charm
- iPhone 2.0: Direct From New Zealand!
- Apple's Prospects: What a Difference a Year Makes!
- Is Your Mac.com Address An Endangered Species?
- Apple's New Products: Is the Excitement Waning?
- Newsletter #449 Preview: Should Apple Take the
Gloves Off and Go After Microsoft For Real? - The Snow Leopard Report: Selling Updates Without New Features
- Another Look at the 10.6 Value Equation
- The Day After the 10.5.4 Update
June 2008
- Apple and the Cloners: Round Two
- Newsletter #448 Preview: Yes, Many Businesses Are Using Macs
- The Snow Leopard Report: How About Free?
- Missing in Action in iPhone 2.0
- The 10.7 Wish List: Time to Revisit Your Hopes and Dreams
- The New Mac OS X Trojan: Are the Naysayers Right After All?
- Newsletter #447 Preview: Is it Time to Stop Talking About Snow Leopard?
- A Look at Apple's Scheme to Take Over the Windows Desktop
- Another Look at the Steve Jobs Longevity Dilemma
- The Night Owl's Firefox 3.0 First Look
- Is It Time to Dump Your PowerPC Mac?
- Newsletter #446 Preview: Apple Looks Ahead, While Microsoft Looks Back
- The WWDC Report #5: A Few Possible Sore Points
- The WWDC Report #4: The Products Apple Doesn't Talk About
- The WWDC Report #3: Is Snow Leopard An Admission that Leopard is Flawed?
- The WWDC Report #2: Is MobileMe a Big Letdown?
- The WWDC Report: Apple's Stock Prices Dip Ahead of the Keynote
- Newsletter #445 Preview: Can Apple Update the OS Too Quickly?
- The iPhone Report: A Few Irritating Problems Persist!
- The 10.6 Report: Time for Apple to Drop PowerPC Support?
- Are You Ready to Ditch .Mac?
- Can Microsoft Be Saved?
- Newsletter #444 Preview: Will Apple Lose its Cult Following?
May 2008
- The Argument Against Major Mac Redesigns
- The 10.5.3 Report: How Could Apple Make So Many Mistakes?
- The 10.6 Report: An Unexpected WWDC Surprise?
- The Mac Troubleshooting Report: Let's Forget the Voodoo
- Newsletter #443 Preview: Don't Believe Everything You Hear or Read!
- So is Safari Safe?
- The Case of the Missing iPhone: Did Apple Screw Up?
- The Illusion of the Cheap Mac
- Just Another Mac Hardware Reliability Rant
- Newsletter #442 Preview: Are Mac Styles in a Rut?
- Do You Really Need Microsoft Office?
- Apple Begins to Succumb to Entertainment Industry Demands
- More Reasons for Microsoft to Love Apple
- Consumer Reports Flips a Finger Again at Mac Users
- Newsletter #441 Preview: How Apple and Google Plan to Destroy Microsoft
- A Fast Look at the Apple Hardware Upgrade Equation
- The iMac Report: Apple Left the Proprietary World a Decade Ago
- Is a Home-Built Mac a Waste of Time?
- Apple Needs to Open Up!
- Newsletter #440 Preview: The Mac Versus PC Hardware Wars Continue
- The MacBook Pro: Two Years On
April 2008
- Why the iPod is Not a Walkman
- Apple and the Enterprise: A New Focus?
- Don't Tell Anyone: Apple Quietly Updates iMac!
- Newsletter #439 Preview: Apple Goes Up, Microsoft Goes Down
- The Apple Security Report: Safari Needs Better Protection!
- The Apple Earnings Report
- The 10.6 Report: What About the Help System?
- The Leopard Report: Almost Six Months Later
- Newsletter #438 Preview: Maybe Macs Are Appliances After All
- When Apple Says No, Sometimes They Mean Yes!
- A Fast Look at Bogus Apple Inc. Issues
- The Mac Clone Controversy Rears Its Ugly Head
- The Leopard Report: Slower than Windows XP?
- Newsletter #437 Preview: Tell Me Apple: Why Did You Do That?
- The Great Search for Mac Software
- Apple Versus Microsoft: The Great War Enters a New Phase
- Do Browser Wars Make Sense?
- The Apple Wish List
- Newsletter #436 Preview: When is the Best Time to Buy New Apple Hardware?
- The Search for the 21st Century Killer Applications
- The Apple Attack Dogs Become Desperate
- Five Bogus Reasons to Ditch the Mac!
March 2008
- Microsoft's Mojo Declines Inexorably
- Newsletter #435 Preview: The Night Owl Examines the Great Mac Security Fraud
- Is Mac OS Classic Nostalgia a Bad Thing?
- The 10.6 Report -- Making Up for Apple's Mistakes
- Yes, Microsoft Loves Apple's -- Money!
- Reality Check: The Great Safari for Windows Installation Scam
- Newsletter #434 Preview: Welcome Once Again to the Crazy World of Misconceptions
- Apple and the Great Time Capsule Conspiracy
- Forget the Recession: Mac Sales Soar!
- Safari 3.1: Not Quite the Ultimate Browser
- The Leopard Report: It's All About Customer Satisfaction
- Newsletter #433 Preview: A Brief Look at The Night Owl's Software Toolbox
- The Night Owl's Solution to the Microsoft/Yahoo Furor!
- Microsoft and Mozilla Updates: One Minor, One Awesome!
- The Leopard Report: Still Working Great -- But!
- The iPhone SDK: A Look at Apple's Gatekeeper Status
- Newsletter #432 Preview: So Apple Is After the Enterprise After All
- Leopard's Spaces -- Take a Hike!
- The One Paragraph iPhone SDK Report
- Apple Say's Everything's Great -- Wall Street Says Not So Fast!
- The Great Hardware Pitch: The Midrange Tower Revisited
- Those Computers Look Nice, But Can You Tell Them Apart?
- Newsletter #431 Preview: So Apple is Succeeding or Failing or Something
February 2008
- Apple Discovers the World of Damage Control
- Is it Easy to Tire of Your Mac?
- Yes, It's the Network
- The Mac Hardware Report: How Important Are Looks?
- The One Paragraph MacBook and MacBook Pro Speed Bump Report
- Be Very Careful About Troubleshooting Sites
- Newsletter #430 Preview: Apple and Microsoft: Where's the Trust?
- Keyboards: From Half-Ergonomic to Full Ergonomic
- The Leopard Report: Another Perspective on Troubleshooting Issues
- The Wireless Phone Report: The Dawn of a New Age -- Maybe
- Microsoft: The Long Road Downhill
- Newsletter #429 Preview: The Mac Is On Top Again!
- The Great Time Machine Conspiracy
- The Leopard Report: Why So Buggy?
- The Leopard Coming-of-Age Party
- The One Paragraph 10.5.2 Report
- Microsoft, Yahoo and Google: Apple Needs to Stay Above the Battle!
- Newsletter #428 Preview: The iPhone and An Owner's Disconnect
- Is Microsoft Paying Lip Service to the Mac?
- The MacBook Air: Designed From the Top Down?
- Introducing iPhone 1.5
- Apple and the Great Product Demand Game
- Newsletter #427 Preview: Apple's Golden Opportunity
January 2008
- Why I Won't Buy the MacBook Air
- Is Apple Overselling the Mac?
- What About iPhone 2.0?
- Why Apple Should Ignore the Press
- Newsletter #426 Preview: Turning Good News Into Bad
- Is Apple Playing a Psychological Warfare Game?
- Reconsidering Apple's Future
- Apple's Best Quarter Ever, But the Sky is Falling
- The Leopard Report: Successful But!
- Newsletter #425 Preview: Another Look at Lies, Ignorance and All That Stuff
- Expo Update #3: Wall Street Isn't Impressed
- Expo Update #2: Everything is Not Coming Up Roses!
- Expo Update: The MacBook Air -- Definitely NOT a Desktop Replacement
- The Bullet Point Macworld Expo Keynote Report
- Not About the Expo: Does Anyone Remember CES?
- Newsletter #424 Preview: A Realistic Look at Apple's Innovation
- The Leopard Report: The Danger of Too Many Prompts
- The Mac Value Equation Revisited
- Is Apple Moving Away From Pro Computers?
- Update! The Night Owl's Guaranteed Incorrect Macworld Predictions
- Newsletter #423 Preview: The Night Owl Presents: A User's View of the iPhone
- Office 2008 for the Mac: A Short Look at a Sprawling Suite
- How Will Apple Cope with Success?
- The Night Owl's Raves and Rants for 2007
December 2007
- I Agree: Apple Should Ignore the Enterprise!
- Newsletter #422 Preview: Are Chronic Leopard Bugs Getting a Fair Hearing?
- Will Macs Soon Change?
- The U.S. Cell Phone Industry is Stuck in the 1950s
- The Leopard Era Report: The Tiger Disconnect Persists
- The Real Losers in the Think Secret Settlement
- Newsletter #421 Preview: The Browser Wars:
Take the Acid2 Test and Call Me in the Morning - If You Think Leopard is Buggy, Consider This!
- Let's Not Forget the Mac OS We Used to Know and Love
- The Mac Troubleshooting Technique Rarely Mentioned
- Is Leopard a Failure?
- Newsletter #420 Preview: Apple and Microsoft Deserve Hardball Questions
- Forget the Apple Death Watch! How About a Microsoft Death Watch?
- Another Spotty Leopard Hatchet Job
- The Leopard Report: Another Look at 10.5 Bugs
- Apple's Success: The Vultures Are Circling
- Newsletter #419 Preview: CompUSA Self-Destructs
- The Leopard Report: Does the Finder Make the Grade?
- So Is Leopard Really Slower?
- So Is All Quiet on the iPhone Front?
- The Leopard Report: My Pleasure is Your Pain
- Newsletter #418 Preview: I'm Ticked Off By Shoddy Tech Journalism
November 2007
- Here's One Reason Why Microsoft Can't Sell Windows Vista
- A Troubling Look at Web Standards and Desktop Publishing
- The Leopard Report: It Looks Pretty, But Can You Get Any Work Done?
- How Can Journalists Be So Wrong About Apple?
- Newsletter #417 Preview: Is This Really the End of the PC Era?
- The Leopard Report: Your Problem Isn't My Problem
- So What About an Apple HDTV?
- The Great Firefox Bug Controversy
- Is Windows Vista a Train Wreck?
- Newsletter 416 Preview: The Downsides of Mac Tips and Tricks
- First Leopard Update Squashes File Move Bug!
- The One Paragraph Mac OS 10.4.11 Report
- The Leopard Report: Is Apple Ignoring Vintage Mac Users?
- The Mac OS 10.6 Wish List: Number Two -- Bring Back Classic Features!
- Living with Leopard: Book X -- But Can You Get Your Work Done Faster?
- Newsletter #415 Preview: Who Needs Leopard? What About Mac OS 10.6?
- Living with Leopard: Book IX -- The Professors of Ignorance Strike Again!
- Living with Leopard: Book VIII -- The Great Data Loss Controversy
- Living with Leopard: Book VII -- So How Many Bugs Does Leopard Really Have?
- Living with Leopard: Book VI -- I'll Never Go Back!
- Newsletter 414 Preview:
Living with Leopard: Book V -- Second Week: Same as the First - Living with Leopard: Book IV -- Spaces, Spaces and More Spaces
October 2007
- Living with Leopard: Book III -- Backups for the Rest of Us
- Living with Leopard: Book II -- The Controversial Interface
- Living with Leopard: Book I -- Ignore the Fear Merchants!
- Newsletter 413 Preview: The Night Owl Special Report: The Leopard Review
- Waiting for Leopard Book VI: A Preinstallation Checkup
- Waiting for Leopard Book V: Should You Just Wait?
- Waiting for Leopard Book IV: Backup Salvation
- Apple Smashes Money Records Again!
- Newsletter 412 Preview: Waiting for Leopard Book III: Just a Point-One Upgrade?
- Waiting for Leopard Book II: The Real Marquee Features
- The iPhone SDK: Forced or Preordained?
- Waiting For Leopard Book I: Kiss Your Old Mac Goodbye!
- The One Paragraph Leopard Arrives on October 26 Report
- The Return of Navigator to the Mac: Do We Need Another Browser?
- Newsletter #411 Preview: Apple and Microsoft: Who Gives Better Excuses?
- Why Aren't There Any Lawsuits About This?
- The Mac User's Dilemma: Saying "I Told You So"!
- Apple Hardware Remains Best in the Industry
- Is Apple Losing its PR Edge?
- Newsletter #410 Preview:
Is This What Microsoft's Mac Business Unit Means by "Innovation"? - Should Apple Remove the Gloves?
- Is Microsoft Dooming the Zune?
- On the PC Industry's Planned Obsolesence Conspiracy
- Is Microsoft Office 2008 Too Little, Too Late?
September 2007
- Newsletter #409 Preview: Reality Check: Is Apple At War With iPhone Hackers?
- Microsoft Meets Its Own Worst Enemy: Microsoft
- Why Apple Isn't Microsoft
- Will Apple Be Forced to License Mac OS X?
- Should Microsoft Be Forced to Unbundle Windows?
- Newsletter #408 Preview: Time to Talk About Leopard's Successor Yet?
- Hopes and Dreams for the Leopard Finder
- Do We Really Need Software Upgrades?
- Making Stories Out of Nothing At All
- The Smartest Move Bill Gates Ever Made!
- Newsletter #407 Preview: Memo to PC Users: Why Do You Take All This Abuse?
- Another Obligatory Microsoft Rant
- Not All Cable TV and Internet Experiences Are Bad
- The Entertainment Industry Still Doesn't Grok Apple
- How About Suing Wall Street Analysts Over Apple Snafu
- Newsletter #406 Preview: Apple Converts Rocks Into Gold Once Again
- Here's a Better Way to Reach Out and Touch the iPod
- Memo for People Who Bought an iPhone Before September 5
- Is the New Eudora Bait and Switch?
- A Look at the Great iMovie Controversy
- Newsletter #405 Preview: The Night Owl's Spam Fighting Efforts Revisited
August 2007
- Mac and PC Price Comparisons Revisited: Eight Cylinder Versus Four Cylinder
- Lies, and the Liars Who Tell Them
- The Almost Final Leopard Upgrade Pitch!
- Does Apple Hate the iPhone Hackers?
- Newsletter #404 Preview: The Windows Genuine Disadvantage
- Why the Mac is Poised for the Mainstream
- Can You Depend on the Big Sites to Run Your Business?
- Is Apple Being Too Secretive?
- Why Mac Users Love the Products and Hate the Company
- Newsletter #403 Preview: Can You Depend on Product Reviews Anymore?
- Does Apple Really Listen to You?
- Another Rant About the Microsoft Paper Tiger
- Consumer Reports Screws Up Again!
- Flash!
- Please Be Nice to Customer Support People
- Newsletter #402 Preview: I Go to Visit the Apple Store
- Can Apple Be Trusted?
- Apple's Stealth Product Introductions Revisited
- The Mac Report: No Surprises From Apple
- Getting an iPhone Isn't Always So Easy, Folks!
- Newsletter #401 Preview: Lies, Lies and More Lies
- Are There Really Mac Secrets?
- Here's the Truth: Apple's Products Aren't Perfect!
July 2007
- The Apple Music Report: Where's the Rest of the Industry?
- More iMac Conventional Wisdom -- Maybe
- Newsletter #400 Preview: Who Is It So Hard to Be Easy?
- Mac OS X Poised for Tremendous Growth?
- The Apple Financials Report: Let's Not Get Carried Away
- Welcome to the World of Snap Judgments
- Mac OS 10.4.10: The Worst System Update Ever?
- Newsletter #399 Preview: Isn't It Too Early to Review Leopard?
- Microsoft's Problems Mount
- Another iPhone Rant: Did Apple Forget Call Quality?
- First Look: VMWare Fusion 1.0 RC1 for the Mac
- The Night Owl's Pet Peeves for 2007
- Newsletter #398 Preview: When is the Best Time to Buy a New Mac?
- How Not to Learn What Apple is Doing!
- The Wall Street Kool-Aid Drinkers Do It Again!
- No, Folks, Most of You Don't Need an iPhone!
- Memo to Apple: Please Don't Discontinue Cheap Macs!
- Newsletter #397 Preview: Is Apple Getting a Fair Shake From the Press?
- Do You Have a Dream Macintosh?
- Is Apple Gouging iPhone Customers?
- Is it the Problem or the Fix that Counts?
- The iPhone Feeding Frenzy Report: Safe to Talk About Macs Again?
- Newsletter #396 Preview: So What's Really Wrong With the iPhone?
June 2007
- Another Look at Apple's Stealth Fighters
- Why Can't I Shut Up About the iPhone?
- The Apple Hardware Report: Aren't You Ready for a New Mac Yet?
- They Know Not What They Do
- Newsletter #395 Preview: Do Macs Make Sense for Business?
- The Leopard Report: I Bet You Haven't Heard Everything!
- The One Paragraph Mac OS 10.4.10 Report
- The Browser Report: A Look at the Safari/Internet Explorer Conspiracy Theory
- The Leopard Report: Ready to Retire the G3?
- The iPhone Report: Release Version 2.0 Before 1.0
- Newsletter #394 Preview: Is Apple Taking Us Back to the 1990s?
- The Leopard Report: Is Apple Regaining What it Lost?
- The WWDC Report: On the World of Diminished Expectations
- The WWDC Report: Apple's iTunes Trojan Horse
- The WWDC Report: No New Hardware Folks!
- Newsletter #393 Preview: Attention Mac Users: Microsoft Makes Good Stuff Too!
- The Apple Product Report: Too Much Hype?
- The Leopard Report: Is it Time for a Subscription Program?
- The Return of Netscape Navigator: Does the World Need Another Browser?
- The State of Mac Reliability: Where Do We Stand?
- Newsletter #392 Preview: First Look: Parallels Desktop 3.0 Release Candidate
May 2007
- Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: Friends or Foes?
- The Mac Music Report: Buy, Buy and Buy Again!
- Do You Really Want to Write a Blog?
- Is Mac Security Going Down the Tubes?
- Newsletter #391 Preview: Will Mac Users Accept Being Normal?
- Are You Taking Too Much for Granted?
- Memo to SoundExchange: Please Get a Calculator
- When Will Apple Deliver A Decent Mouse?
- Is Google the Next Microsoft?
- Newsletter #390 Preview: The Consequences of Posting Fake Stories
- Welcome to Microsoft's Newest Sales Tactic
- What if Your Internet Domain Was Hijacked?
- Apple's 2007 Lineup: The Excitement Underwhelms
- The Apple Music Report: Would You Buy Beatles Albums One More Time?
- Newsletter #389 Preview: Do Windows Users Really Love Windows?
- The Leopard Report: Another Pitch for Intelligence
- Are You Sick of the iPhone Yet?
- The Leopard Report: What About Rolling Back an Update?
- Memo to Apple: Please Keep the Honor System
- Newsletter #388 Preview: A Religion for All Mac Users: Backups
- Is Apple Lying to You?
- Apple Says They're Green and Getting Greener
- What Apple Can Learn From The Tonight Show
April 2007
- Another Night Owl Rant: Why Do They Always Get it All Wrong?
- Newsletter #387 Preview: Do You Really Want to Rent Music?
- Despite Record Earnings, Microsoft is Shooting Itself in the Foot!
- Apple Vanquishes Expectations One More Time!
- Steve Jobs Lets His Cohorts Take the Fall
- The Windows User's Dilemma: They Hear But Do Not See
- Newsletter #386 Preview: More Mac Security Monkey Business
- HP's Curious Printer Setup Confounds Devoted Mac User
- More Apple Sales Confusion
- The DRM-Free Music Conspiracy
- The Leopard Report: Exaggerating the Impact of 10.5's Delay
- Newsletter #385 Preview: The Mac Becomes a Low-Key Survivor
- The Leopard Report: Everything You Expected is Wrong!
- The Mac Hardware Report: A Look at the Eight-Core Value Equation
- Mind Share Versus Market Share
- Are Desktop Email Applications a Dying Breed?
- Newsletter #384 Preview: On the Meaning of the Phrase:
"Indistinguishable From the Original Recording" - Apple Sales Confusion and Other Silliness
- The Mac Hardware Report: The Eight-Core Odyssey
- The Leopard Report: Will Boot Camp Change?
- Steve Jobs One-Ups the Music Industry Again!
- Newsletter #383 Preview: Despite Everything I Still Like Microsoft
March 2007
- The Fear-Factor Revisited: Time for a Microsoft Death Watch?
- The Fear-Factor: Yes, Microsoft Has Lost its Clout!
- It's the Little Things that Irritate!
- Update! The Leopard Report: Spring Forward, Fall Back!
- Newsletter #382 Preview: Half an AirPort Extreme Review
- A Look at the Apple Naming Problem
- The Mac OS X Virus Report: Why the Disconnect?
- The Leopard Report: Can We Dump Interface Silliness?
- The Truth Revealed: Microsoft Can't Compete!
- Newsletter #381 Preview: No, Apple Isn't Giving Up the Mac!
- The Leopard Report: Playing the Great Waiting Game
- The Mac Switching Report: The Application Quitting Dilemma
- After Mac OS 10.4.9 Comes -- What?
- Reality Check: Does Apple Really Want to Conquer the Living Room?
- Newsletter #380 Preview: Is Bill Gates Sane and Putting Us On or What?
- The Leopard Report: Time for One More Wish List
- Memo to Apple: How About Updating Your Displays?
- Dell Reaps What it Sows
- The Leopard Report: A March Release? No Way!
- Newsletter #379 Preview: Seven Hours and Counting: A Windows User Confesses
- The Fear Factor: Apple Versus Microsoft
- The Leopard Report: Why Rush?
February 2007
- Parallels Desktop Reaches Another Milestone
- Camino 1.1 Beta: Not Quite a Firefox Clone
- Newsletter #378 Preview: Problems, Problems, Problems All Day Long
- Running Windows on a Mac: Let Me Count the Ways
- The Leopard Report: Running Late?
- The 802.11n Reality Check
- Realtor Services Give Microsoft Internet Explorer the Heave-Ho
- Newsletter #377 Preview: The Rumor Report: Do You Really Believe that Stuff?
- The Mac Night Owl's Alternate Reality: Welcome to a DRM-Free World
- Vista and Mac OS X: Will Apple's Sales Dip?
- The Apple Music Report: Are You Ready to Live Without DRM?
- The Leopard Report: Apple's Golden Opportunity?
- Newsletter #376 Preview: The Leopard Report: Should You Put Off Buying a New Mac?
- The Leopard Report: Please Make QuickTime Pro Free!
- Steve Jobs and the DRM Blame Game
- Apple Inc. and Apple Corps: It's All About the Money
- More Silly Decisions from Microsoft
- Newsletter #375 Preview: Microsoft and the Ministry of Silly Decisions
- Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista: A Very, Very Informal Comparison
January 2007
- The Speculation Department: How Apple Tried to Trick Rumor Sites!
- Forget the iPhone: Let's Return to the Mac!
- The Spam Report: The Night Owl Gets it Under Control
- Newsletter #374 Preview: Welcome to the Politically Incorrect World of Godaddy
- The Apple Hardware Report: Is the iPhone a Disposable Piece of Junk?
- The Leopard Report: Welcome to the Insane Asylum!
- The Leopard Report: Mac OS 10.5 and iLife -- Happy Together
- The Leopard Report: Last Call for Feature Requests?
- Newsletter #373 Preview: Apple and the $1.99 Controversy
- Is There a Dark Side to Apple's Financials?
- The Apple Financial Report: Wall Street Fooled Again!
- Apple Has Fans & Microsoft Has Shills
- The Ongoing Apple Death Watch
- Newsletter #372 Preview: The Leopard Report: Apple's Forgotten Operating System
- Macworld Expo #4: Apple's Bad Hair Day
- Macworld Expo #3: The Worst Thing About the iPhone
- Macworld Expo #2: The Almost Non-Mac Keynote
- The Night Owl's Instant Keynote Commentary -- What Happened to the Mac?
- Not About the Expo: The Ticking DRM Time Bomb
- Newsletter #371 Preview: Taking a Long-Term View of Apple Computer
- The Mac Hardware Report: A Real iPod Video? Not for Me!
- Time for Apple to Reinvent the Personal Computer?
- A Macworld Expo Preview: Expect Disappointment
- Stop! Every Apple Product is Defective! Well, Maybe Not
- Newsletter #370 Preview: More Products that Compel Rather than Repel
December 2006
- A Memo to Professional Users: Stop Waiting!
- Some Nice Things About 2006
- More Expert Losers
- Don't Believe the Experts!
- Newsletter #369 Preview: The Night Owl's Ongoing Email Odyssey
- Weekend Rant: The Tech Industry Needs the Apple Touch
- Mac Reality Check: Welcome to the World of Spin
- Remaining Proactive Against Possible Malware
- The Browser Wars: Why Did They Forget Printing?
- Newsletter #368 Preview: The Night Owl's Favorite Mac Software
- Lies, Lies and More Lies
- The Numbers Game: Are iTunes Sales Soaring or Falling?
- New Thunderbird Beta Raises the Bar
- The Leopard Report: Don't Change Too Much
- Newsletter #367 Preview: The Tiger Report: Overcoming Inertia
- The Leopard Report: Last-Minute Wishes
- Do You Still Need Office for the Mac?
- How Microsoft Can Compete with Apple
- The Tiger Report: They Have Problems, But I Don't!
- Newsletter #366 Preview: Parallels Desktop Becomes More Cohesive
- Let's Not Get the Wrong Idea About Apple
November 2006
- Why Apple Needs Competition?
- Is the Press Biased Against Apple?
- Why Buy a Product You Don't Like?
- Newsletter #365 Preview: Do You Really Need that System Enhancement?
- Do You Want to Rent Music?
- The Mac Hardware Report: Ready to Ditch Your PowerPC Yet?
- On the Dangers of Overwrought Expectations
- Memo to Microsoft: Shouldn't the Best Product Win?
- Newsletter #364 Preview: Apple: Empowering Regular People
- The Mac Software Report: A Eulogy for PowerPC Applications
- The Tiger for Intel Report: The Case for Rosetta
- Is Zune Getting Too Much Attention?
- The Case of the ATI Graphics Card and the Missing Instructions
- Newsletter #363 Preview: How I Got Liberated with IMAP
- Are Mac Fans a Dying Breed?
- Reality Check: Do Mac Troubleshooting Sites Help or Hinder?
- The Mac Hardware Report: A Warning to Apple
- Welcome to the World of Fake Mac Viruses
- Newsletter #362 Preview:
The Leopard Report: Should Apple Tinker with the Interface? - Thirty Million Lines and Counting: Is There No End to Software Bloat?
- Mac = Cool; PC = Boring
- Is PowerPC Software an Endangered Species?
October 2006
- The Apple Hardware Report: Can You Predict a New Product from a Patent?
- Newsletter #361 Preview: Does the Intel-Based Mac Eliminate Apple's Advantage?
- Movie Downloads: Technology in Search of a Market
- Those Mac Myths Just Won't Go Away
- The New MacBook Pros: Are they Safe to Buy?
- The One Paragraph MacBook Pro Update Report
- Firefox 2.0 Reviewed: I Think
- Newsletter #360 Preview: The Silly Season Revisited: Should Dell Take Over Mac Hardware?
- The iPod Virus: Did Apple Say the Wrong Thing?
- Apple's Financials: Wall Street Blows it Again!
- The End of the Bunker Mentality
- The FUD Report: More Mac OS X Virus Myths
- Newsletter #359 Preview: They Still Don't Know a Mac Can Do That
- The Leopard Report: The Alleged Rush to Beat Vista to Market
- Office for the Mac Delayed Except When it's Not
- Windows Vista and Zune: Microsoft Blows it Again!
- Firefox 2.0: Please Don't Forget Printing
- Newsletter #358 Preview: The Changing Mac Magazine Landscape
- The Failure of the Great Apple Guessing Game
- Time to End the Steve Jobs Death Watch!
- The Tiger Report: Do You Really Want to Run Mac OS X on a Plain PC Box?
- Microsoft and the Mac: Excuses, Excuses!
- Newsletter #357 Preview: 10.4.8 Update Delivers Lots of Fixes and a Brand New Feature
September 2006
- Where Microsoft and its Cohorts Fear to Tread
- The Tiger Report: All Right, Still More to Say
- The Tiger Report: The Last One?
- The Apple Hardware Report: Believe it or Not!
- Newsletter #356 Preview: The Mac Hardware Report: Quality Control Problems Recede
- A Tale of Two Bets
- The Apple Music Report: Debunking the Conventional Wisdom
- The Unholy Trio: Mac OS X, Parallels Desktop and Windows Vista
- The Technology News Report: Does Anyone Remember Research?
- Newsletter #355 Preview: The Leopard Report: How About a Fair Upgrade Policy?
- Microsoft's Zune: Is This Any Way to Promote a New Product?
- The Perils of Building a Cheap PC
- An iTunes and Movie Download Reality Check
- The Real Mac Versus Windows Cost Comparison
- Newsletter #354 Preview: The Mac is Not a Toaster Oven
- Amazon Unbox: What a Stupid Idea!
- The 24-inch iMac: Are We Missing Something?
- The One Paragraph iMac/Mac mini Update Report
- The Online Music Report: How to Double-Cross Your Partners
- The Mac Hardware Report: Buggy as Hell?
- Newsletter #353 Preview: Macrosoft's Mac BU Blog: The Spin Stops Here!
- The Mac Hardware Report: Apple and the Entry-Level PC
August 2006
- Memo to the Entertainment Industry: It's the Product, Stupid!
- Microsoft's Invitation: A Threat or a Compliment?
- The Mac Hardware Report: Stop Saying Macs Cost More!
- Newsletter #352 Preview: The Leopard Report: Sorting Facts from Total Nonsense
- The Battery Recall: Now Apple and Dell Have Something in Common
- The Leopard Report: Don't Get Hung-up on the "Top Secret" Claim
- The Leopard Report: No, You Don't Want to Run a Beta Operating System
- What Apple and Other Router Makers Can Learn From Hotels
- Newsletter #351 Preview: The Kind of Virus Even a Mac User Must Fear
- The Leopard Report: The Greatest Feature of All!
- A Perspective -- Not a Review -- on the Mac Pro
- Apple Computer Conspiracy Theories Abound
- Announcing the Mac Night Owl Mobile Initiative Public Beta
- The Mac Versus Windows Holy War: Real or Fake?
- Newsletter #350 Preview: Why the Death of Virtual PC is Another Microsoft Failure
- The Leopard Report: The Rush to Judgment
- The Leopard Report: What is Old is New Again
- The Mac Pro Report: The Night Owl Nails it Again!
- The Mac Night Owl and Opera Play Nicely Together
- The Leopard Top Secret Report: Give Me a Break!
- The WWDC Rant: The Short Keynote Update
- Newsletter #349 Preview: The Pre WWDC Rant: Is Apple Losing its Mojo?
- The Apple Security Report: Repeating the Big Lie!
- The Leopard Report: Please Don't Change Too Much!
- The Tech Support Report: Getting Good Service -- Possible or Not?
- Can Apple Do the Unthinkable Again?
July 2006
- Newsletter #348 Preview: The Mac Hardware Report: What About a Cheap Minitower?
- The Leopard Report: Forget the New Features!
- So You Want to Customize a Mac? Don't Get Me Started!
- Microsoft Owes its Stockholders a Refund!
- Is Microsoft's Zune Buggy a Threat to Apple?
- Newsletter #347 Preview: Sorry, There Are No Heroes
- The Dark Side of Boot Camp
- Apple's Financials: Wall Street Blows it Again!
- The Mac Hardware Report: Not Another Mac Pro Rumor
- The Apple Hardware Report: Design Screw-ups?
- Newsletter #346 Preview: The Night Owl Review: iEmulator 1.7.9
- See, Other Computers Have Defects Too!
- The Leopard Report: The Rush Release Rant!
- The Browser Report: Would You Tell 20% of Your Customers to Take a Hike?
- Windows on a Mac: Welcome to the Fear-Mongering Season
- Newsletter Issue #345 Preview: What's the Best Way to Run Windows on a Mac?
- Apple: Please Stop the Silent Notifications!
- The Educational iMac: A First Step or a Trend?
- The Leopard Report: Don't Forget the Obvious Stuff!
- The Intel Transition: A Rush to Market!
- A Paragraph Worth of Monday Rants
June 2006
- Not a Rumor: Why Apple Might Release Pro Desktops Early
- The Leopard Report: Apple Needs to Add Lots of Extras
- The Tiger Report: Mac OS 10.4.7 and Counting
- Apple's Ads: Why Not Fact Check Dell Too?
- Newsletter Issue #343 Preview:
Is Anyone Interested in Boot Camp and Windows Vista Beta 2? - The Leopard Report: Time to Fix the Interface for Real?
- Apple Needs to Seize the Moment
- The Conspiracy to Destroy Apple
- Apple's Ad Campaign: I Didn't Know a Mac Could Do That!
- A Paragraph Worth of Monday Rants
- Apple Legal and the Asteroid Trojan Horse
- On the Death of the Laptop
- Apple and the Tech Support Factor
- The Mac OS and Windows: Stuck in 1984
- Newsletter Issue #341 Preview: A Little Common Sense About Plastic Seals
- Are Mac Rumors Helping Apple's Competitors?
- Macs on Intel: The 80% Factor
- The Case for an Educational Mac
- The Mac Versus a PC: Has the Difference Vanished?
- Newsletter Issue #340 Preview: The Coming Windows Vista Train Wreck
- The Tiger Report: A Memo to Mac OS 9 Users
- The Dirty Little Secret About Cheap PC Boxes
May 2006
- The Night Owl Review: Microsoft's Wireless Laser Desktop for Mac
- The Hopes and Dreams for the Mac Pro
- Newsletter Issue #339 Preview: Apple and the Online Press
- Should Apple Postpone the Power Mac Replacement?
- Perpetuating the Myth of Expensive Macs
- No, These Aren't Apple Fool's Stories!
- Apple Equals Simple; Microsoft Equals Clueless
- Newsletter Issue #338 Preview: The Night Owl Review: 17-inch MacBook Pro
- Not Another MacBook Review
- Notice Something Different?
- Hung Up on Apple's Terrible Flaws?
- Apple's Notebooks: Is this the End?
- The One Paragraph MacBook Introduction Report
- Do You Feel Abused by Apple?
- Macs for Business: Does Apple Care?
- If a Rumor Fails, Try, Try Again
- Who Pays for Favored Net Access?
- Reality Check: Apple Versus Apple and Other Stuff
- Reviewing the Reviewers of Apple's New Ads
- The Danger of Calling the Mac Virus-Free
- Apple Goes Up, Microsoft Goes Down
- The Night Owl Review: 20-inch iMac Update
April 2006
- Is Software Quality Getting Worse?
- Apple and the Press Revisited
- Fleshing Out the MacIntel Line: Notice Anything Strange?
- Some Myth Busting for the Weekend
- Mac OS X, Open Source and Other Silliness
- The Ultimate Leopard Wish List
- Apple Continues to Make Money the Old Fashioned Way
- Running a Parallel Operating System with Parallels Workstation
- Firefox Update: Universal, But Not Much Better
- Has the Mac Lost its Soul?
- Attention Developers: Don't Tell Me to Dual-Boot!
- The Great Windows Rip-off
- The Second Mac Revolution: Running Multiple Operating Systems
- Microsoft Reacts to Boot Camp Release
- I Install Windows XP on a MacIntel
- Here We Go Again: Is Your Problem My Problem?
- The Mac OS 10.4.6 Report: The Fixes Keep on Coming
- Apple Versus Apple Centers on a Logo
- Not Another Story About the History of Apple
- As Apple Prepares for Two Anniversaries
- The Tiger Report: Apple Needs to Sweat the Details
March 2006
- Is the Apple USB Modem Controversial?
- Microsoft's Delays and Apple's Golden Opportunity
- Respite for Apple? Windows Vista Succumbs to Another Delay
- Before You Buy a MacIntel: A Rosetta Performance Update
- The WWDC Report: All Right, Apple Won't Fight Microsoft's Windows Vista Marketing Machine
- WWDC 2006: What You Can Expect from Apple and Others: Take Two!
- Why is Mac mini RAM Installation So Difficult?
- Does Apple Have Anything to Fear from France?
- The Secret of Getting Maximum Mac OS Performance: Go Intel!
- Does Apple Have Anything to Fear from France?
- Apple Technical Support: Ready to Take a Dive?
- Don't Dismiss an Apple TiVo!
- The Apple Hardware Report: Putting the New Mac mini in Perspective
- New Apple Hardware: Please Don't Annoy Me with Facts!
- New Apple Hardware: Please Don't Annoy Me with Facts!
- New Apple Hardware: Are There Downsides?
- The One Paragraph Apple Event Report
- Apple Buying Disney? Absurd!
February 2006
- Reality Check: A Look at Apple Reliability
- The Apple Security Report: Time to Take Precautions
- Apple's Special Event: Reading the Tea Leaves
- The Night Owl Review: Logitech S 530 Cordless Desktop Keyboard and Mouse
- A New Mac Virus? Be Careful What You Wish For!
- How Apple is Changing Expectations: No, It's Not a Secret!
- The Tiger Report: So How Many Updates Can There Be?
- The Mac Hardware Report: Living in Suspension
- The Leopard Report: Overcoming Common User Problems
- The Leopard Report: Should Apple Try to Upstage Windows Vista?
- Hardware Reviews: Where's the Trust?
- Wall Street Voodoo: Apple's Stock Continues to Nosedive
- Reading the Tea Leaves on Future Universal Applications
- The Leopard Report: Apple Needs to Stop this Silliness!
- The Mac Hardware Report: Are You Ready to Buy a MacIntel?
- MacIntel Apps: An Avalanche or a Sprinkle?
January 2006
- The Great MacIntel Sales Controversy
- How the Disney/Pixar Merger Might Affect Apple
- The Secret of Improving Rosetta's Performance
- The Apple Software Report: The Forgotten Office Suite
- The Low-Down on the Great iTunes Conspiracy
- The Apple Financial Report: Yes, Mac Sales Were Hurt by Intel Transition
- The Apple/Intel Report: Today's Models Will Get Faster
- The Mac Hardware Report: Successful or Not?
- The Apple/Intel Report: Fair Pricing?
- The Macworld Expo Report #5: So What's Missing?
- The Macworld Expo Report #4: The Rest of the Story
- The Macworld Expo Report #3: Sorry, No Cheap MacIntels
- The Macworld Expo Report #2: Handicapping the Reactions
- Get Ready for the Great Assault on the iPod
- The Night Owl Review: Another Great Keyboard from Matias
- The Mac Hardware Report: The End of the Fax Modem
- The Night Owl Review: A Regular Keyboard for Laptop Users
December 2005
- The Mac Malware Report for 2005
- The Mac Hardware Report: Stagnant for 2005?
- The Apple/Intel Report: Yes, it's Still a Mac!
- The Apple/Intel Report: Oil and Water?
- The Mac Hardware Report: Are You Seeking the End of the Rainbow?
- The Apple/Intel Report: The Dangers of Buying Too Soon
- The Macworld Expo 2006 Preview: Are they Taking the Fun Out of the Keynote?
- The End of Internet Explorer for the Mac: The Non-Story of 2005?
- The Case for GUI Inconsistency
- The Apple/Intel Report: The Pressure Mounts
- iMac G5 Review Addendum: Business or Personal?
- The Tiger Report: Widgets? Who Needs Them?
- No, It's Not a Virus
- Should You Buy a New Mac Now or Wait?
- The Night Owl Review: Rhapsody on the Mac
- The Night Owl Review: EyeTV 500
- So You Want to Rent Music?
- Universal Binaries: Get Ready for the Avalanche
- The Apple Broadband Tuner Report
- The Apple/Intel Report: Will Apple Be Forced to Rush MacIntels?
November 2005
- Revisiting the Apple/Intel Connection
- A Super Duper! Backup Solution
- A Speedy Browser Update
- The Mac Night Owl Review: A Digital Flat Panel on the Cheap
- Memo to Apple: Don't Cave to Music Industry Demands!
- Consumer Reports: Will They Ever Learn?
- The Speculation Report: Getting Ready for Macworld Expo San Francisco
- Memo to People Who Want to Open Up Apple's Closed Ecosystem
- The Mac Switcher Report: Trials and Tribulations
- The Apple/Intel Report: About that Rosetta Trademark
- The Apple/Intel Report: What Should You Expect From a MacIntel?
- Do Computer Magazines Have a Future?
- The Mac Switcher Report: Trials and Tribulations
- The Apple/Intel Report: About that Rosetta Trademark
- The Apple/Intel Report: What Should You Expect From a MacIntel?
- Do Computer Magazines Have a Future?
- Mac OS X on Intel Revisited
- Video and the iPod: A Toy or a New Business Model?
- So Which PC Maker is in Trouble Now?
- The Tiger Report: So How Many Fixes Does 10.4.3 Have?
October 2005
- The Apple/Intel Report: Should You Buy a Power Mac Now?
- The Apple/Intel Report: A Brief Look at the Performance Equation
- The Apple Software Report: Is Adobe Getting the Shaft Again?
- The Mac Hardware Report: An Epitaph for the Modem
- It's a Small World After All
- The Mac Hardware Report: When is an Upgrade Not an Upgrade?
- Does Anyone Remember the Mac?
- Third Party Printer Cartridges Revisited
- The Apple Hardware Report: So Who Needs a Power Mac?
- The Apple Hardware Report: Jobs Said it Wouldn't be Done
- The Apple Financials Report: Stock Tanks Over Record Profits
- Browser Market Share: A Reality Check
- The Tiger Report: Please Fix My Keychain
- The Tiger Report: The Broken Migration Assistant
- The Apple Hardware Report: Unthinkable--Take Two
- The Apple Hardware Report: Doing the Unthinkable
- Apple Reliability: A Look at the Chaos Theory
- A Fast and Dirty Look at the Great iPod nano Conspiracy
- The Apple/Intel Report: Staying Out of Touch
- The Mac Music Report: Would You Pay $1.49 for a Hit Song?
September 2005
- The New Macs that Never Arrived
- The Mac Music Report: The iPod Features You Don't Want
- The Mac Night Owl Review: Opera Sings a Different Tune
- Apple's Quality Control: A Fable?
- Attention AOL Members: Are You Ready for MSN?
- The iPod Report: Cheaper by the Dozen
- The Tiger Report: It's Not All Bad
- The Browser Review: Firefox Matures
- The Mac Music Report: Staying Unbeatable
- The Mac Music Report: Rumor Sites Partly Successful
- The One Paragraph Apple Music Event Report
- Winning Patents Instead of Market Share
- What About Suing School Systems that Dump Macs?
- The Mac Hardware Report: Talk About Hot
- The iPod Patent Pickle: Welcome to the Silly Season
- The Mac Hardware Report: Apple Starts and Stops Mac mini Trial Marriage
- The Mac Hardware Report: When You Believe Apple Lies, Anything is Possible
August 2005
- Don't Tell Anyone: The Mac Rumor Sites Are Still Here
- I Have Seen the Future of Education: The iBook
- The Apple/Intel Report: What They Stopped Talking About
- The Leopard Report: What About a Public Beta?
- The Tiger Report: Why Does Mac OS X Need Application Uninstallers?
- A Warning to Apple Computer: First Impressions Count
- What Apple Can Learn from Logitech and Microsoft
- The Apple/Intel Report: Lest We Forget!
- The Apple/Intel Report: A Clue to What Apple is Waiting For?
- The Apple/Intel Report: A Clue to What Apple is Waiting For?
- The Apple/Intel Report: Dual Boot Macs? A Downside?
- The Mighty Mouse Report: So Why Does My Finger Tingle?
- The Apple/Intel Report: DRM or Not? Big Deal!
- The Mac Night Owl Review: Some Face Time with a Mighty Mouse
- All This for a Mouse?
- The Mac Night Owl Review: 20GB iPod: Still Number One
July 2005
- A Fast and Dirty Mac Browser Update
- The Tiger Report: Approaching the Three Month Milestone
- The Mac Hardware Report: So Where's My Modem?
- The One Paragraph iBook/Mac mini Update Report
- The Apple/Intel Report: The Excitement Dies Down
- The Mac Hardware Report: 400,000 Windows Users Can't Be Wrong
- The Tiger Report: Not All Mac OS X Problems Are Easy to Solve
- The Mac Hardware Report: Back to 5%
- Introducing the Newest Mac Rumor Site: The Wall Street Journal
- Apple's Financials #2: Don't Worry, the Sky is Still Falling!
- Apple's Financials: Wall Street Screws Up Again!
- The Tiger Report: The Biggest Update of All!
- The Apple/Intel Report: A Secret Plan to Kill the Mac?
- The Apple/Intel Report: Did Apple Rush to Judgment?
- The Apple/Intel Report: Are Cheaper Macs Coming?
- Mac OS X? But Which Version?
- The Apple/Intel Report: The Great Microsoft Equation
- The Apple/Intel Report: Don't Believe Those Surveys!
- Off-Brand Ink Cartridges: Don't Waste Your Time!
- The Apple/Intel Report: The AMD Lawsuit
- The Apple/Intel Report: Still More Myth Busting
June 2005
- The Apple/Intel Report: Should You Buy a Macintel 1.0?
- AOL: Opening the Last Barrier
- The Sad State of Technical Support: Take Two
- The Apple/Intel Report: Should Apple Cut Prices?
- The Mac Hardware Report: Michael Dell Changes His Tune
- The Mac Hardware Report: The Cloning Myth Revisited
- And Now for Something Completely Different: Will You Buy 10.5?
- The Apple/Intel Migration Report: Haven't You Had Enough Yet?
- The Apple/Intel Report: A Seamless Transition?
- The Ongoing, Never Ending WWDC Report: What is a Mac, Really?
- The Ongoing, Never Ending WWDC Report: The Day After
- The Ongoing, Never Ending WWDC Report: Intel Inside Edition
- The Ongoing, Never Ending WWDC Report: Preflight Edition
- The Mac Hardware Report: The Best Mac?
- The Mac Hardware Report: Yes It's All Right to Buy a New Mac!
- The Ongoing, Never Ending WWDC Report: Weekend Edition
- The Tiger Report: Pay and Pay Again
- The Tiger Report: Your Problem or Mine?
- Will Apple Survive After Steve Jobs?
May 2005
- Yet Another 10.5 Wish List
- Mac Security: Don't Get Overconfident!
- The Tiger Report: Why Can't the Mac OS Fix Itself?
- The Mac Hardware Report: A Mac with Intel Inside? What Are They Smoking?
- The Tiger Report: Why Aren't More Apps Compatible?
- The Tiger Report: Sowing the Seeds of Update Confusion
- The Tiger Report: The Great Repair Disk Permissions Mystery
- The Tiger Report: Should You Wait for 10.4.2?
- Ho Hum, Another iTunes Music Store Competitor
- The Tiger Report: I Come to Praise Tiger, Not to Bury It!
- The Tiger Report: What About These Silly Annoyances?
- The Tiger Report: Apple's Secret Operating System
- The Tiger Report: Are System Requirements Too Stiff?
- The Tiger Report: Avoiding Bad Installations
- The Tiger Report: Something is Wrong!
- The One Paragraph iMac/eMac Update Report
- The Tiger Report: Here's a Feature We Didn't Get
April 2005
- The Tiger Report: Making a Fuss Over What?
- Is Microsoft Finally Going Downhill?
- Is Amazon Now on Apple's Hit List?
- The Apple Price Myth: Will They Ever Learn?
- The One Paragraph Update to the Final Panther Update
- Does Opera Have a Chance? You Bet!
- On the Ethics of Paying Reporters for Favorable Stories
- OK, Here's Another Final Panther Report
- Adobe and Macromedia: A Brief Look Behind the Corporate Speak
- The Tiger Report: Anticipating Your Favorite Features
- So How Many Mac minis Did Apple Sell Last Quarter? Don't Ask!
- The Tiger Report: A Memo to Readers Who Bought a New Mac on April 11th
- The One Paragraph Tiger Release Date Report
- The iPod: When Will the Train Slow Down?
- AOL's Internet Phone Service: Mac Users Cannot Apply!
- Are Rumor Sites Losing Their Touch?
- Best Buy and Apple: Will it Really Work?
- Would You Buy a Product Named Longhorn?
- Mac OS 10.5: Time for a New User Interface?
- The Tiger Report: Should You Consider Upgrading?
- Spammers Love iPods
- All Right Macs Are Slow and Expensive
March 2005
- A Reality Check on the Latest Predictions of the Mac's Success
- The Mac mini Version 2.0 Wish List
- Apple's Lawsuits: The Real Message
- The Myth of Mac OS Security Rears its Ugly Head (Again)
- The Computer of the Future: A Return to Dumb Terminals?
- An Apple Branded Two-Button Mouse? Can't We Talk Reality for Once?
- Can We Survive Without Mac Rumor Sites?
- MSN for Mac, We Hardly Knew Ye!
- Definition of Napster To Go: Bait & Switch!
- Things Change!
- The Tiger Report: We Need Automatic Maintenance!
- Complicated User Interfaces #2: What About Consistency?
- Complicated User Interfaces: It's Not Just Computers
- Personal Computer Interfaces: The More Things Change…
- A Paragraph About a Visionary
- Should Apple Port Safari to Windows?
February 2005
- Is Apple Finally Getting a Hand on Pricing?
- The New iPods: The Great FireWire Cable Controversy
- The One Paragraph iPod Update Report
- The Mouse Factor: How Many Buttons Do You Need?
- Mac Talk: Overheard at the Car Dealership
- The Tiger Report: The Last Wish List?
- Online Music Security: They Can't Copy Protect Your Ears!
- Microsoft Does it Again!
- Are Mac Browsers Really Slower?
- The Mac Hardware Report: How Old is Old?
- Mac OS X 10.3.8: The Last Panther Update?
- Would You Rather Buy or Rent Music?
- Apple Product Updates: The Pace Lags
- (Update!) Nothing Lasts Forever: Was Dell Right?
- On Becoming a Consumer-Oriented Company
- How Do You Identify a Journalist?
- How Much Computing Power Do You Need?
- Monday Rant: Don't Tell Anyone, But New PowerBooks Are Out!
January 2005
- Pages, Pages and More Pages
- Apple: The Media's Darling
- The State of the Mac: Things Change
- Today's Rant: Blurring the Definitions of Journalism
- The Mac mini is Just the Beginning
- Apple and Memory: Tossing Conventional Wisdom on its Ear
- Another Apple Secret: Fewer Steps
- Can the Mac mini Really Convert Windows Users?
- From the Expo Floor #4: Not Everything is Wine and Roses
- From the Expo Floor #3: So Apple is Walking on Water
- From the Expo Floor #2: Apple's Great Gamble
- From the Expo Floor #1: Should I Say I Told You So?
- Tuesday Rant: Pre-Expo Jitters? No Way! By Grayson Steinberg
- What if Macs Suddenly Became Popular?
- The Unintended Consequences of Apple's Lawsuits
- Does Apple Have a Succession Plan?
- Tuesday Rant: Is The Mac Night Owl a Blog?
- On the Hazards of Inflated Expectations
- Can Apple Learn Anything From Bose?
- The Headless iMac: The Rumors Soar
- A Look at Microsoft's Delusions
- Why Do Others Have Problems and Not Me?
- Monday Rant: AOL's Peculiar Definition for "All"






