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Technology Quotes by Walt Mossberg

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Walt Mossberg points out that books should be cheap and digital. He notes that many apps work on Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac, and that big screens helped Samsung rise and iPhone sales soar. He also mentions that tablets like the iPad are useful for school, work, and play, and that the tech world never runs out of ideas.

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My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.

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Books should cost less and they should be digital.

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Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?

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Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.

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I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And…

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Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned…

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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places…

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I'm happy to report that the first Chromebook designed from the ground up to run Android apps out of the box has…

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People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on…

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There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.

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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate…

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Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on…

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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate…

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I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never…

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What's the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed…

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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the…

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If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience.…

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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies…

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I don’t recommend that average iPad Air owners upgrade to the Air 2. But what about the vast majority of iPad owners…

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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my…

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Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer…

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Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.

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When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a…

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People think of Apple as a maker of excellent premium hardware. In fact, many reviewers regard Apple devices as the best you…

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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

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By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special…

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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the…

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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of…

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Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should…

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Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a…

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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the…

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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

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Compared to running apps on a smartphone or, more aptly, an iPad, the app experience on the Samsung Chromebook Plus is distinctly…

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I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that…

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In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he…

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When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the…

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Big screens helped propel Samsung to top-tier prominence and helped iPhone sales explode a few years later. But for many, including myself,…

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Books should cost less and they should be digital.

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There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated…

Big screens helped propel Samsung to top-tier prominence and helped iPhone sales explode a few years later. But for many, including myself, the biggest-screen…

Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.

When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung…

I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

I believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better…

It turns out that CVS is one of about 40 merchants in a consortium that formed in 2011 to develop their own mobile-phone-based payment…