Al’s email is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. Giving him the benefit of the doubt, i’ll assume he doesn’t know any better as opposed to being a grumpy old man. Well, maybe it’s a bit of both. 1. iTunes is a store. It has never pretended to be anything else. The store never offered "universal" […]

You & I have usually been on different sides of the fence re: iTunes. Last year Apple made SO many errors in the planning and running of iTunes, that I finally was badly alienated. Now I still PARTICIPATE, because a successor hasn’t shown its head yet, unfortunately. Microsoft, perhaps? Here’s what’s wrong with iTunes: a) […]

Obviously Steve Jobs wasn’t raised by old Jewish ladies.  Otherwise, he’d know how to pronounce MAH JONG! For a control freak who’s known to rehearse ad infinitum, and even bristled today during a minor glitch when the screen he wanted didn’t appear INSTANTLY, I’m stunned that Steve could fuck up so badly.  Or, is it […]

Soon your iPod will never break. Many of you weren’t around in the early days of computing, the eighties, when hard drives were introduced for personal computers, and failed on a regular basis.  You backed up everything on floppies, because that day was going to come.  When you heard that grinding noise and your data […]