Opinion

WWDC 2026: How Apple can take a great leap in AI

Let users pick the model, keep the experience and the data on Apple’s terms — and take advantage of the hardware.

By Jonny Evans

May 7, 20266 mins

AppleSiriVoice Assistants

The big reveal: Apple’s iPhone 16 ‘Glowtime’ event

Apple's approach to AI isn't about buzzwords, it's about the benefits.

By Jonny Evans

Sep 9, 2024 7 mins

Apple Generative AI iPhone

Now that Qualcomm’s interested, will Apple buy (a little more) Intel?

Qualcomm is allegedly sniffing at the beleaguered remains of Intel and may try to acquire parts of the company. Will Apple make its own counterproposal?

By Jonny Evans

Sep 6, 2024 5 mins

Apple CPUs and Processors Intel

Apple’s planned chatbot should have no ‘personality’

Every personality-centric chatbot ever created has been annoying, offensive, addictive, or boring.

By Mike Elgan

Sep 5, 2024 7 mins

Apple Generative AI Machine Learning

GenAI vendors’ self-destructive habit of overpromising

Just about every generative AI vendor offers enterprise CIOs all kinds of promises about the technology. But they’re talking up 2026 capabilities when trying to make 2024 sales. That’s a recipe for disaster for both buyer and seller.

By Evan Schuman

Sep 5, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI Technology Industry

The AI glasses market comes into focus

Within the next couple of years, the market for AI glasses will prove so compelling that just about everyone will want to wear a pair.

By Mike Elgan

Sep 2, 2024 6 mins

Augmented Reality Generative AI Virtual Reality

Court handcuffs employees with non-compete agreements — again

For a brief moment, it appeared employees would no longer be locked into jobs with arbitrary, non-compete contracts. But a recent court decision has workers back in non-compete jail.

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Aug 29, 2024 5 mins

Government Laws and Regulations Technology Industry

When was the last time a Mac caused a business disaster?

As you choose among platforms on which to base your future AI-driven business, you might want to ask yourself some questions.

By Jonny Evans

Aug 28, 2024 7 mins

Apple Mac Mobile Security

Will Microsoft’s big roll of the AI dice pay off?

When it comes to determining how much big tech firms are worth, there’s short-term and there’s short-sighted. Case in point: Microsoft, which is spending billions of dollars on AI-related infrastructure even as Wall Street yawns.

By Preston Gralla

Aug 28, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI Microsoft

I’ve got the genAI blues

ChatGPT and the like are not nearly as good as you think. And as time goes by, they're getting worse.

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Aug 23, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI Technology Industry

How Apple can fight the tyranny of ‘choice’

There's a way Apple can comply with regulations forcing it to open up and still stand up for the people who like its platforms just as they are.

By Jonny Evans

Aug 22, 2024 6 mins

Apple Laws and Regulations Mobile Security

Want genAI to deliver benefits? You have a lot of work to do first.

It’s all a matter of understanding how your business can benefit from generative AI tools and platforms. But first, you need to make some difficult decisions — and then hope genAI doesn’t self-destruct.

By Evan Schuman

Aug 21, 2024 6 mins

Generative AI IT Strategy Technology Industry

Humanoid robots are a bad idea

Multiple companies are now using robots that walk and talk like human beings. What could go wrong?

By Mike Elgan

Aug 20, 2024 8 mins

Automotive Industry Manufacturing Industry Technology Industry

JumpCloud survey highlights the business case for Macs

Small businesses will see more Macs in their business across the next 12 months, a JumpCloud report claims.

By Jonny Evans

Aug 19, 2024 5 mins

Apple Mac Small and Medium Business

For August, Patch Tuesday means patch now

Microsoft’s monthly update for August includes fixes for six — yes, six — zero-day flaws affecting Windows and Office.

By Greg Lambert

Aug 16, 2024 10 mins

Microsoft Microsoft Office Windows Security

Germany’s BSI guns for better tech security

Microsoft will need to become secure by design, but if you can't wait there's an alternative.

By Jonny Evans

Aug 16, 2024 5 mins

Apple Security Windows

AI and AR can supercharge ‘ambient computing’

A 33-year-old vision is now fully realizable thanks to the coming ubiquity of generative AI and augmented reality (AR) glasses.

By Mike Elgan

Aug 16, 2024 7 mins

Augmented Reality Technology Industry Virtual Reality

Agentic RAG AI — more marketing hype than tech advance

CIOs are so desperate to stop generative AI hallucinations they’ll believe anything. Unfortunately, Agentic RAG isn’t new and its abilities are exaggerated.

By Evan Schuman

Aug 16, 2024 5 mins

Emerging Technology Generative AI Technology Industry

Convenience has a cost, privacy has iPhone

Google's Apple-slanted criticisms open the debate about privacy in AI — and expose Gemini's limitations.

By Jonny Evans

Aug 14, 2024 6 mins

Apple Generative AI Google

Microsoft has a fix for preventing the next CrowdStrike fiasco, but is it a good one?

Maybe giving security firms access to the Windows isn’t the best idea, but freezing them out could be worse.

By Preston Gralla

Aug 14, 2024 6 mins

Microsoft Security Practices Windows Security

Apple’s Patreon fee will hurt the wrong people

The company's decision to charge a 30% fee on Patreon subscriptions unfairly taxes creatives.

By Jonny Evans

Aug 13, 2024 6 mins

Apple Mobile Mobile Apps

Apple, this is the time to seize the moment

If they regulate you like the market leader, you might as well become the market leader, right?

By Jonny Evans

Aug 13, 2024 5 mins

Apple Mac Mobile

Where are my AR glasses?

We’ve been on the brink of a thriving market for AR glasses for years. What’s taking so long for them to arrive?

By Mike Elgan

Aug 9, 2024 7 mins

Augmented Reality Desktop Virtualization Technology Industry

Why health might be Apple’s AI profit center

Like me, analysts believe Apple will eventually charge a fee for access to some Apple Intelligence features. I argue that its biggest opportunity in the space is around AI-augmented fitness and healthcare.

By Jonny Evans

Aug 8, 2024 6 mins

Apple Generative AI Mobile

Apple ships truly open-source AI models

Apple is turning weakness into strength as it opens up its approach to artificial intelligence (AI) research.

By Jonny Evans

Jul 31, 2024 5 mins

Apple Generative AI Mobile

Tell the truth: Do you want AI lie detectors in the workplace?

The question is controversial and raises a host of questions, such as: do AI lie detectors even work?

By Mike Elgan

Jul 31, 2024 6 mins

Artificial Intelligence Generative AI Technology Industry

Apple Intelligence delayed?

Perhaps Apple is just planning how to launch it right.

By Jonny Evans

Jul 29, 2024 5 mins

Apple Generative AI iOS

Apple’s Underdogs ad is funny, but it has a message

The tools we use are becoming less important than the task at hand.

By Jonny Evans

Jul 24, 2024 4 mins

Apple Collaboration Software Digital Transformation

Why going online is no longer fun

We need an internet that isn't fouled with junk content and misleading links, cybersecurity protections that aren't just band-aids, and social media minus the tampering.

By Scot Finnie

Jul 24, 2024 5 mins

Cyberattacks Internet Privacy

Is Copilot for Microsoft 365 a lying liar?

It can be. But there are ways to reduce the number of hallucinations it generates — if you know what you’re doing.

By Preston Gralla

Jul 24, 2024 7 mins

Generative AI Microsoft Microsoft 365

AI chatbots are people, too. (Except they’re not.)

Talking software has no thoughts, feelings, memories or awareness. But most people think it does. That’s a problem.

By Mike Elgan

Jul 23, 2024 7 mins

Generative AI Machine Learning Robotics

The workers have spoken: They’re staying home.

And companies can't make them come into the office. Really.

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Jul 22, 2024 5 mins

Hybrid and Remote Work Technology Industry

Put not your trust in Windows — or CrowdStrike

Who in the world would trust Windows for any mission-critical work?

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Jul 20, 2024 4 mins

MacOS Operating Systems Windows Security

Get ready for Olympic-size threats during the Paris games

The 2024 summer Olympics will showcase a new world of AI-generated fakes, advanced cyberthreats, and the rise of AI-powered defense.

By Mike Elgan

Jul 19, 2024 6 mins

Cyberattacks Generative AI Security

Apple Intelligence doesn’t use YouTube, but does it matter?

The controversy concerning the use of YouTube caption data raises big issues around AI.

By Jonny Evans

Jul 18, 2024 5 mins

Apple Generative AI Mobile

ARM-based Copilot+ PCs offer precious few backup options

At present, there are only a small number of backup and restore options for Copilot+ PCs running ARM64 Snapdragon X CPUs.

By Ed Tittel

Jul 17, 2024 5 mins

Backup and Recovery Microsoft Windows 11

Why Apple Intelligence will grab hearts and minds

Consumers don't trust technology and want privacy and data security from their services, which is exactly what Apple provides.

By Jonny Evans

Jul 17, 2024 6 mins

Apple Generative AI Unified Endpoint Management

Where does Apple Intelligence come from?

And how long will the 'fair use' defense last in the age of AI?

By Jonny Evans

Jul 15, 2024 5 mins

Apple Generative AI Laws and Regulations

The promise and peril of agentic AI

Now that Amazon is making moves to lead in artificial intelligence with next-generation technology, we can no longer ignore it.

By Mike Elgan

Jul 15, 2024 7 mins

Amazon Web Services Artificial Intelligence Generative AI

Renegade business units trying out genAI will destroy the enterprise before they help

In many ways, the rush to try out still-evolving generative AI tools really does feel like the Wild West. Business execs need to slow things down.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 15, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI IT Strategy

For July, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update fixes four zero-day flaws

This month’s Patch Tuesday release includes 132 fixes with a big focus on Microsoft SQL Server.

By Greg Lambert

Jul 12, 2024 11 mins

Microsoft Windows Windows Security

‘Quiet firing’ layoffs risk fomenting a toxic environment

The pace of tech layoffs has slowed somewhat in 2024, but the trend is persistent.

By Scot Finnie

Jul 10, 2024 6 mins

Hybrid and Remote Work IT Strategy Technology Industry

AI managing AI that is monitoring AI: What could possibly go wrong?

Generative AI advocates say genAI tools can catch errors made by other genAI tools — but humans must still check the AI checkers’ work.

By Evan Schuman

Jul 9, 2024 6 mins

Generative AI IT Management Technology Industry

Copilot+ AI PCs are finally here. You don’t want one — yet

The promise of these new devices is that they’d herald the arrival of AI tools to the Windows masses. That’s not really the case right now.

By Preston Gralla

Jul 9, 2024 6 mins

Generative AI Microsoft Windows

Boeing and the perils of outsourcing mission-critical work

Never let MBAs driven by the bottom line take over an engineering company building airplanes and spaceships.

By Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Jul 5, 2024 5 mins

IT Leadership Outsourcing Technology Industry

AI washing: Silicon Valley’s big new lie

The claim that AI improves everything and operates without humans is a delusion.

By Mike Elgan

Jul 3, 2024 9 mins

Artificial Intelligence Technology Industry

Why (and perhaps how) Apple Intelligence will make money

How soon will your enterprise need a provider to deliver trusted, sovereign cloud services for AI?

By Jonny Evans

Jul 1, 2024 5 mins

Apple File Sharing Generative AI

Congress warns Microsoft about foreign hackers again — will it matter this time?

After a Chinese-government sponsored espionage group hacked into US government email accounts last year, it seemed as if Microsoft might be in hot water. But so far, little has changed.

By Preston Gralla

Jun 26, 2024 7 mins

Cyberattacks Government Government IT

AI regulation: While Congress fiddles, California gets it done

California, which has the world's fifth-largest economy, is taking the lead in much-needed protections for tech privacy and AI regulation.

By Scot Finnie

Jun 26, 2024 5 mins

Generative AI Government Laws and Regulations

Why Apple is now in the server market

It's not just about security, it's also about scale and efficiency.

By Jonny Evans

Jun 25, 2024 5 mins

Apple CPUs and Processors Generative AI

Digital nomads just got huge screens and fast internet

The two biggest pain points for remote workers trying to get their jobs done in faraway places have been erased by innovative new products that should make it even easier to work from anywhere.

By Mike Elgan

Jun 25, 2024 7 mins

Augmented Reality Hybrid and Remote Work Internet