Apple’s new AI problems have nothing to do with Siri
It’s been about 15 minutes so, yes, it is time once again to check in on AI, the big baby of technology that can’t be left alone for five minutes without shoving a drawer full…
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Success has changed you, Apple
Happy birthday, Apple! You don’t look a day over 49. As with any big birthday, it’s time to take a look back and marvel at how far you’ve come. The Apple of today is not…
Even PC users have caught MacBook Neo fever
The MacBook Neo is off to a good start, according to this one guy on the internet. According to this “Tim Cook” fellow: Mac just had its best launch week ever for first-time Mac customers.…
Apple’s real intelligence? Winning the waiting game
Apple is behind on AI! We all know it! It was in all the papers. But Horace Dediu wonders if Apple didn’t pull off the most brilliant move in corporate history. That move? Not dumping…
Don’t worry, Apple isn’t going all practical
They did it! Yes, last week Apple announced the much-rumored “cheap laptop”, the MacBook Neo. Coming in a variety of almost actual colors, the Neo ships with an A18 Pro processor and starts at just…
Apple does cheap better than most companies do good
Welcome to… Experience Week. On a scale of one to “bubble bath with Bad Bunny”, how would you say you are enjoying the experience so far? As of this writing, the experience so far has…
Apple’s AI products are all doomed. Wanna guess why?
It is time for another edition of Old Man Macalope Explains How Things Used to Be Better. No, don’t get up. Back in the early 2000s, there were three big Apple rumors: the tablet, the…
A colorful MacBook is coming to chase away the Siri doom
It is mid-February 2026, and the Macalope is still writing “Where does the time go? All things fade. Soon we die.” on all his checks. It’s a little game he likes to play with the…
Game over, losers. The iPad won
Harken, if you will, back to a simpler time. A time when the Macalope’s columns were mostly concerned with dunking on people who said ridiculous things about Apple or Apple products. What happened to those…
It’s over. The iPad won
Harken, if you will, back to a simpler time. A time when the Macalope’s columns were mostly concerned with dunking on people who said ridiculous things about Apple or Apple products. What happened to those…