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Apple seeds fifth beta of OS X Mavericks 10.9.2
Developers can now download the fifth version of OS X Mavericks 10.9.2…
The ROI of free operating system updates: Who wins, Apple or Microsoft?
Last month, OS X 10.9, aka Mavericks, accounted for 68% of all Macs…
Apple signals end to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard support
Apple has apparently decided to kill support for OS X Snow Leopard…
Apple is winning the OS war
Apple is winning the OS wars, setting the agenda for the future of computing…
Apple seeds iOS 7.1 beta to developers
Apple has made iOS 7.1 beta available to developers…
Much still to come from Apple this autumn
Apple watchers know that the fall season usually brings a bountiful harvest…
The tiny changes make you fall in love with Apple’s iOS 7
There are a number of relatively small tweaks and additions that have really sold me on iOS 7…
Samsung slows Tizen development, sources say
Samsung Electronics reportedly has slowed down the development of its Tizen OS…
Apple’s iOS 7 and the changing medium of screen design
As with many discussions on the web the debate around skeuomorphism and flat design…
Will Apple’s OS X Mavericks be free?
In the past, a copy of Mac OS X has cost as much as $129 beginning with 10.0 Cheetah…
Apple may have opened Pandora’s Box with iOS 7
Software developers who create apps for Apple’s iOS platform…
Gartner: Apple to ship nearly 300 million devices this year
Worldwide devices (the combined shipments of PCs, tablets and mobile phones) are projected to reach…
Is Apple’s iOS fragmenting? Not nearly as much as Google’s Android
93 percent of Apple’s customers use iOS 6, a figure about which Google can only dream…
More nonsense about OS X from the pundits
I could probably devote every one of my columns to the silly comments…
Apple reportedly extending OS X Mavericks and iOS 7 testing beyond developers
Following the announcement of major updates to both OS X and iOS…
Apple’s iOS 7 changes much more than skin-deep
The most striking things about iOS 7 are the rather dramatic changes that Apple has made to…
Apple unveils completely redesigned iOS 7 with new user interface, new features
Apple today unveiled iOS 7, the most significant iOS update since the original iPhone…
Windows 8 continues to flop hard
Windows 8 continues to fall behind…
Apple’s OS X 10.8.4 to deliver WiFi compatibility, FaceTime fix, 802.11ac, and more
What’s inside Apple’s OS X 10.8.4 12E55…
Apple vs. Google vs. Microsoft: One platform will not rule them all
There are narratives circling the technology industry…
Apple’s iOS ups massive lead over Android in U.S. Web traffic with 69% share in April
Apple’s iOS is tops in mobile Web traffic…
Apple iPhones and iPads likely to pass U.S. Pentagon security review within days
Apple iPhones and iPads will likely soon pass a Pentagon security review…
Pentagon ready to approve Apple’s iOS for high security use
The Department of Defense is expected in coming weeks to grant Apple’s iOS…
Apple in deadline crunch mode for WWDC as Jony Ive’s team works on ‘deForstallization’ of iOS 7
iOS 7 is so significant a re-imagining of Apple’s mobile operating system that…
Watch out Fragmandroid, Samsung plans big push for Tizen mobile OS
Samsung appears to be prepping a big push behind its own operating system, Tizen…
Apple’s ‘new wave’ anti-malware patent a new riff on Qubes OS memory isolation
Apple has been awarded a patent for a computer system architecture …
Mac OS X Snow Leopard stubbornly rejects retirement
Apple’s OS X Snow Leopard, which shipped in August 2009…
Apple consistently convinces users to upgrade OS X
Unlike rival Microsoft, Apple has consistently been able to get a significant portion…
Jean-Louis Gassée: Apple can finish what Microsoft’s Sinofsky started
Now that all OS X and iOS software is under one hat…
Intel CEO Ottellini says Microsoft releasing buggy Windows 8 before it’s fully ready, sources say
Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini told employees in Taiwan…
How Apple killed the Linux desktop and why that doesn’t matter
It’s hard to say exactly what percentage of desktop and laptop computer…
10 reasons to drop Windows for Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion
Now that OS X Mountain Lion is here…
Apple’s Mountain Lion brings iOS one-level folder logic to OSX
Apple has been working on its file system and with iOS it had almost killed the concept of folders…
How to prepare your Mac for Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion
Mountain Lion, Apple’s next version of OS X (10.8), is due any day now…
Smartphones reignite the OS wars
Smartphones have become the preferred computer of the masses…
Chitika: Microsoft’s Windows shows decline, Apple’s Mac gains in September 2011
Apple’s Mac operating system share, propelled by the released of Mac OS X Lion, increased its share…
The tell-tale signs suggesting a platform’s demise
An OS, as a platform, usually has a finite life….
HTC considers purchase of mobile operating system
Cher Wang, chairwoman of Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC Corp…
Apple iOS devices, Mac laptops the majority at University of Texas at Austin
The University of Texas at Austin has an enrollment of approximately 50,000 students…
Apple’s iOS doubles worldwide market share over past 10 months; now world’s #3 OS
Apple’s iOS mobile operating system is the now the world’s third most widely-used OS…
