Gordon's Notes

In early 2024 the American DOJ sued Apple for an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market. I agree with the thrust of the suit. Apple may...

[Update 3/6/2022: After I exposed this scam I revisited our purchase history and the listing for the scam subscription had changed. Instead ...

Google Maps seems unbeatable. Every time Apple does an upgrade Google does three. It seems Apple can't win. But Google has weaknesses....

I’ve read Macintouch for decades. It’s been a living fossil for 15 of those years; Ric passed on RSS and blogs and feeds and permalinks. For...

One of the odder experiences of aging is living through technology regressions. I’ve seen a few — solutions that go away and are never repla...

I don’t think Mac users should switch, but I can’t recommend any newbies join MacShip. Aperture users abandoned. Sierra’s scary data shifti...

More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers & cables sold on Amazon are fake, says Apple . Finally. Sold “Direct from Amazon” mind you. A...

I thought Apple had given up on HealthKit, but recently we learned that it’s been rebranded as CareKit and it seems to be going forward. Si...

If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare institutions can’t easily share data between computer systems, just take a look at Calendaring in iOS...

Apple made bazillions again. They won’t pay corporate tax on it. The share price has gone up. That’s good for me in one way — I own index f...

My main workaround for eBook misery has been to buy from Google Play , strip the Adobe DRM , and store the ePub (really should be written EP...

But for FairPlay, I would not use iOS 9 audiobooks. I wouldn’t swear every time it loses its place. I wouldn’t be pissed at Apple. But for ...

[When first wrote this I chose an article, that, by chance, didn’t have a redirect to the original site. Which means I got things a wee bit ...

I finally realized what I want. I don’t want an iPad. I don’t want an aWatch. I want a Zenith CruisePad for my iPhone … Rather than a ...

This is a weird time in software. Lots of things are going away, but few new things are appearing. As best I can tell Windows software died...

In the spirit of the season, which science tells us is Scrooge before his psychotic break, a call out to Amazon, Pottermore, and Apple. To ...

Seven years ago Clayton “Innovators Dilemma” Christensen wrote .. Clayton "innovators dilemma" Christensen: Apple will fail … t...

I bought my G5 20” iMac in July of 2005 with a 400GB SATA drive and SuperDrive for $1879, it expired today at 9y3m of age. I think the 400 ...

I expect Apple to screw up anything related to long term data management, but this is extreme even by their standards. GigaOm, in language r...

There's a healthy business in in used 6th generation iPod Nanos . The kids lost ours recently and we all miss it; we might look for a u...