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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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