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There may be some real laws in place to prevent Apple from becoming a real bank, but so far Apple is beginning to act like a bank as it watches over my purchases just like a bank credit ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerAs mega-conglomerates go, I do not admire Samsung, but they deserve some props. Few companies make as much hardware as Samsung. No company knows how to throw mud against the wall better than Samsung. From refrigerators to washers ... Continue Readin…
Lees meerWhat do iPhone users and Tesla owners have in common? Both need more battery life. Yes, I know we’re asking a lot from battery technology. Look at all an iPhone can do. Apple even improved iPhone 11 Pro ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerRemember Friday Freebies. Back in the day, and I’ve been writing on Mac360 since the early days in mid-2004, we would come up with free apps to review every Friday. As the Mac platform grew, developers figured they ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerJust to be clear, I’m writing about Apple’s new iPhone 11 Pro models and Google’s new Pixel 4 models. Apple sells about 150-million iPhones a year. Google does not sell one-tenth that many in a year, but gets ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerCompetiton is often a game of survival of the fittest; an evolution of sorts where the savvy and persistent win, the slow lose. What happened to Nokia and Microsoft and BlackBerry’s mobile businesses? Too slow to adapt to ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerAdvertising is broken. Maybe it always has been broken. I once heard an executive say, “Half my advertising money is wasted. I just don’t know which half.” Guess what else is broken? Applications. We pay for website content ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerLarger and more successful technology companies spend billions of dollars a year on research and development. Apple’s R&D expenses are among the highest and growing quickly. What is interesting about how Apple works vs. how competitors work should .…
Lees meerI love fonts. My Mac has about 20,000 fonts. Fonts. Typefaces. The ones Apple gives just are not enough. The old adage is simple. “You can never have too many fonts.” You can put too many on a ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerColor me brutally honest. I do not like Apple TV. More specifically, I do not like Apple TV 4K. Nathan and I own one, we use it occasionally, but the overall experience is less than cable TV’s remote. ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerDo you find it interesting how different all these major technology companies really are; one from another? Seriously. What techno-gadget maker is like Apple? Amazon is an online retailer that also makes gadgets but never says how many ... Continue …
Lees meerHow much information does Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other advertisers collect from us? Supposedly, it is mountains of data, a gazillion petabytes of data, so much data they know more about us than we know ourselves. We give ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerWhat is the biggest name in online streaming of TV shows and movies? Take a guess. Come on. Try. You can do it. [still waiting] If you answered Netflix then you nailed it. That may change, but Netflix ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerWord on the proverbial streets says Apple’s upcoming MacBook Pro, the 16-inch model, will have a new keyboard. What? Yet another new keyboard? How did the last one– the much maligned butterfly keyboard– work out? What I sense ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerAs an aging member of the personal computer’s early years, I come from a generation that opened the hood to see what made the machines tick. I swapped out hard drives, added chips for more RAM, even upgraded ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerSomething strange is going on in Smartphone Camera Competetion-land. Right now, the interwebs is full of Pixel 4 vs. iPhone 11 Pro camera comparisons. The end result? Apple has a winner. Review after review after compared photos tells ... Continue R…
Lees meerApple has changed. No, you can’t walk into an Apple Store and expect to find $200 off on a new Mac, or a $100 discount on a new iPhone, but Apple is on sale. You just have to ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerOne of the most glaring benefits of a competitive industry is how each manufacturer tries to outdo the other. Apple didn’t have large displays. Then it did after they become highly desired. What do smartphone customers want now? ... Continue Reading…
Lees meerSo, you love some Apple kit, do you? Got Mac? Got iPad? Got iPhone? As if that isn’t enough, our favorite Cupertino company has us salivating over Watch and AirPods, too. Are you hooked on all things Apple? ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerWhen it comes to the best of the best tecnology gadgets you can color me a bit jaded. I’ve seen them all; the good, the bad, the ugly. The ones that cost more usually give you more in ... Continue Reading »
Lees meerLet’s say you’ve come to your senses and you’ve had it with Google. Enough is enough. No more spying, no more tracking, no more in-your-face advertising designed to manipulate you based upon the dossier Google has compiled of ... Continue Reading »
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