New York Times Techno-Geek's Year In Review Features Apple Technology

by , 9:00 AM EST, December 31st, 2001

David Pogue, technology columnist for the New York Times, has written a review of the past 12 month from a techno-geek's point of view. From the birth and death of Net Appliances to the oh-so-cute Aibo, Mr. Pogue gives a blow by blow look at consumer technological highlights in 2001. Better yet, from the Mac perspective, Mr. Pogue praises what he sees coming from Apple. From the NY Times piece:

With all the hoopla about Windows XP, it is easy to forget that there is another good-looking, super-stable operating system gaining popularity: Apple's Mac OS X.

He also likes the iPod:

Apple's iPod is a spectacular music player. It holds 130 CDs worth of music in a white-acrylic-and-mirror-finish player not much bigger than a box of Tic Tacs. No MP3 player offers this capacity in anywhere near such a small size, especially not with 12 hours of battery life.

Check out the rest of the article at the New York Times online.

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The Mac Observer Spin:

This is the sort of piece we love to see because of its non-Mac specific audience. Mr. Pogue is best known to Mac users from his long career writing and editing for a variety of Mac publications. When he writes for the New York Times, he is writing with the authority of that publication to the kinds of people that Apple needs to reach: non-geeks.