Editorial

The Latest Battle in the War Being Fought On Your Desktop

The Latest Battle in the War Being Fought On Your Desktop

There’s no doubt that Apple’s new music service is amazing and much needed in the industry. It’s easy to use, the price is right, the rights you’re granted for the music you download are many times more liberal than any...

 

The Mac Smackdown – Bash PC Users ??

The Mac Smackdown – Bash PC Users ??

After writing last week’s Macrimination, "The Mac Smackdown Coming Down On You," a treatise pointing out one of the most blatant and unsupported instances of Macrimination ever, I proudly sent off an e-mail to the list the link...

 

The Mac Smackdown Coming Down On You

The Mac Smackdown Coming Down On You

For the most part, the purpose of this column is not draw out singular perpetrators of Macrimination, as they are all over the place, not worth the time it takes to argue with them and for the most part, as set in their ways as we are. But every...

 

What’s Wrong With Sharing?

What’s Wrong With Sharing?

I think the music industry needs a good historian, someone to help give the top executives over at the big record labels some institutional memory and perspective on what’s going on in this new Internet economy. Apple’s move this...

 

Come On Apple, Give Us the Juice

Come On Apple, Give Us the Juice

There once was a time when Apple could poke fun at Intel and put a Pentium II on the back of a snail. But for the last couple of years, Cupertino has spent more time on the defensive by trying to dispel what it calls the Megahertz Myth. As I’ve...

 

The World’s No. 1 Distributor of Macnix

The World’s No. 1 Distributor of Macnix

The unenlightened leaders of a San Francisco company called The Open Group have sued Apple over its use of the name "Unix" in its advertising. The company owns the license to the trademark and claims that Apple has been using it without...

 

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have known for quite awhile that they would eventually have to part ways. Microsoft’s days on the Mac platform are numbered, and they have been numbered since Stevie J. set out on a new course to try and get Windows...

 

Forget the Benchmarks – the Proof Will Come

Forget the Benchmarks – the Proof Will Come

The announcement of Apple’s new G5 professional system is probably the most significant development in the Mac world in years. But instead of rejoicing in the beauty of a brand-new, lightning-fast chip and the promise of further developments,...

 

The Apple Software Conundrum

The Apple Software Conundrum

Apple is getting a lot of respect these days, which makes it hard to write a column called "Macrimination." Criticisms of Cupertino’s benchmark tests on the G5 aside, the mainstream and PC press has been gushing over the new...

 

The Hollow Apple in the Big Apple

The Hollow Apple in the Big Apple

There were many things missing at Macworld CreativePro Conference and Expo this year, as compared to previous Macworld exhibitions held in the Big Apple. Adobe and Microsoft weren’t there (at least they didn’t have booths on the...