Monthly Archives: August 2020

Windows 95 Was Released 25 Years Ago

Jason Snell was not only a Mac user 25 years ago, he also covered the Mac perspective of Windows 95 in MacUser. From his brief retrospective on Six Colors: The magazine I worked at back then, MacUser, decided to offer up as a rejoinder a cover that said “Windows 95: So What?” … Here’s the […]

Trust and Revenue

At a very high level, Apple wants to be the sole payment processor within its App Store for two reasons — trust and revenue. The company wants its customers to feel confident buying and subscribing to digital goods while getting a piece of the revenue for bringing those customers to the makers of those goods. […]

Epic Precendent

If you are one of my few readers then you’re probably already aware that Epic Games is suing both Apple and Google, claiming the the former “is able to extract a supra-competitive 30% tax on purchases of paid apps” while the latter similarly “imposes a supra- competitive commission of 30% on the price of apps […]

My Three Most Notable Macs

I am very excited for Jason Snell’s “20 Macs for 2020”, a retrospective that covers what he considers to be the twenty most notable Macs. The very subject of the podcast got me asking myself, which of the many Macs that I’ve used in the last 30 years would I consider the most notable to […]