One of the last unfinished thoughts Steve Jobs left us with was textbooks. Walter Isaacson’s seminal biography of the Apple co-founder teased that the next textbook publishing was the next industry the iconic technology visionary was seeking to revolutionize. That was the promise and today Apple has delivered the vision, as well as [...]

By a big margin or just a little? A consensus of analysts, more than 85 percent of amateur and professional, estimate that Apple shipped more Mac last quarter than they did in the September quarter, which was yet another record for a company that has outgrown the industry for six years. And, iPhones? [...]

Who doesn’t like a juicy palace intrigue? To date there’s no visible hint of that at 1 Infinite Loop, but the potential — a nice enough place to start — for one exists. Although there’s no question Steve Jobs wanted Tim Cook to run the company, a new book also makes it clear [...]

There seem to be two kinds of Final Cut Pro users these days — those with huge investments in legacy workflows and those who appreciate the features + performance improvements Apple baked into the new version. Those in the former group are dropping Apple’s pro video app and the big beneficiary so far [...]

Rumors that Apple will switch the iPhone from a USB to Thunderbolt interface have been making the rounds. And, honestly, it sounds like a reasonable move for our favorite fruit company as they’ve taken a lead role in not only promoting this tech but also delivering real, actual shipping Thunderbolt products.

A regular question from my kids is, “If we won the lottery, where would we live?” Some folks, it’s not a question idle speculation. That said, although he hasn’t won the lottery, per se, Tim Cook has come into money, a lot of money. Nevertheless, like Steve Jobs, Apple’s current CEO doesn’t live [...]

When rumors started flying that our favorite Cupertino, California fruit company would hold a media event in New York City later this month, most observers assumed it related to publishing. Although there still could be book and/or periodical tie ins, Apple’s announcement today that theme would education and be held at the Guggenheim [...]

About a year after Apple and Intel began rolling out Thunderbolt. Though every current Mac, except the company’s long-in-the-tooth pro tower, offers this super fast connection standard, there have been few peripherals designed to take advantage of it. That’s changing at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show.

More than a decade after Steve Jobs introduced the world to iTunes and the iPod, digital music sales have surpassed physical media. Although the Apple visionary didn’t live to see the day, he certainly foresaw the eventually and played a pivotal role and, in fact, declared way back then that he was out [...]

When did the original iPad arrive? April 3. And, the iPad 2? It began shipping on March 11. If you were a betting person with no special insider knowledge, when would you think Apple plans to ship their next-generation tablet? No, it doesn’t take a rocket science to reckon it.

When the original iMac shipped back in August 1998, the industry and its various hangers on (analysts) variously and collectively stated that the form factor was just so 1984. A dozen plus years later and Apple has the hottest product in this fast growing all-in-one category.

With the ongoing iOS-ification of the Mac in the form of OS X Lion, which incidentally lots of people hate, not to mention the fact that Apple makes the vast majority of its money on things other than high-powered tower computers, lots of people have speculated that the Mac Pro will be discontinued.

Apple has the operating system, app + gaming ecosystem and even has an excellent piece of hardware already in place — why, oh, why haven’t they let the genie out of the bottle? It would be awesome and no further proof thereof is needed than this fresh hack from Steven Troughton-Smith and TheMudKip.

Come Monday morning, or whenever he gets back to his 1 Infinite Loop studio in Cupertino, California, I suspect Apple senior vice president of design will be in for a bit of good natured ribbing. To whit he could reply, whilst looking condescendingly down his nose, “That’s, Sir Jonny, to you, peasant.”

Steve Jobs famously declared that 2010 would be the year of the iPad and that came true big time. When he introduced the Apple’s second generation tablet, he likewise said 2011 would be the year of the iPad 2 and, even though the official tallies won’t be in for weeks, there’s no question [...]