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Chrome is the Antitrust Problem, Selling It is Not the Solution

By Timothy R. Butler | Apr 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Google is worse than Microsoft ever was. With a stranglehold on search and online advertising, backed with an Orwellian surveillance of users, dominating the browser market is too much. The solution cannot be to sell Chrome to OpenAI, however.

I Want a Better Mac, so I’m Cheering for a Better Linux

By Timothy R. Butler | Apr 02, 2025 at 11:04 PM

My recent column on Apple’s declining software quality hit a nerve. So why do any of us put up with software that grows increasingly buggy? One word: hardware.

Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia

By Timothy R. Butler | Mar 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM

The same year Apple launched the iPhone, it unveiled a massive upgrade to Mac OS X known as Leopard, sporting “300 New Features.” Two years later, it did something almost unheard of: it released Snow Leopard, an upgrade all about how little it added and how much it took away. Apple needs to make it snow again.

Chasing the Unified Messaging Dream

By Timothy R. Butler | Feb 26, 2025 at 10:51 PM

Microsoft gave it a try in 1999 and failed. The same tantalizing possibility returns every few years: a single place to communicate rather than an ever-expanding cacophony of apps, each with its own quirks. Are we any closer to this hope a quarter century later?

Tech Shouldn’t Die Young, But Increasingly Does

By Timothy R. Butler | Feb 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM

The Humane Pin has died and HP has killed it. The burial of last year’s tech darling, DOA as its concept was from the get-go, isn’t that important in itself, but continues the troubling trend of things we buy dying unnatural deaths.

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