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Walt Mossberg Quotes
American
-
Journalist
March 27, 1947
Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
Walt Mossberg
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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Today
Time
Fear
People
Buying
Carries
Obsolescence
Products
Tech
Always
Most
Risk
Worry
I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.
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Never
Try
Make
About
Conclusions
Judgments
Products
Snap
Ever
Tried
Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
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Easy
Made
Still
Should
Advances
Consumer
Startling
Technologies
Taken
Use
Whole
I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.
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Good
You
Technology
Day
New Products
Products
Web
About
Bad
Because
Been
Beginning
Changing
Every
Every Day
Fast
Ideas
Million
Never
New
Out
Part
Run
Week
Writing
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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Business
Think
America
Only
Historic
Steve
Steve Jobs
Figure
He
I Think
Jobs
Really
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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Computers
Own
Personal
Unpredictable
Confusing
Item
Unreliable
Major
Most
Other
Our
Us
I actually looked at an Apple ad from 1978. It was a print ad. That shows you how ancient it was. And it said, 'Thousands of people have discovered the Apple computer.' Thousands of people.
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You
People
Said
Apple
Ad
Ancient
Discovered
Print
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Actually
Computer
How
Looked
Shows
Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.
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Cool
You
World
New
Consumer
Developer
Hardware
Maker
Permission
Pipes
Provider
Services
Software
American
Companies
Hard
Make
Move
Own
Whether
Without
We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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Technology
Business
Government
Action
Capacity
Consumers
Device
Disruptive
Ecosystem
Hardware
Innovation
Mirrors
Mobile
Network
Purchase
Separate
Software
Wireless
Get
Need
Some
Take
Us
Use
Where
Will
There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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Always
Small
Large
Same
Entrepreneurial
Outfits
Outlook
Between
Companies
Often
Which
I was very proud to be at 'The Wall Street Journal'. I have nothing bad to say about it. I had a great run there. In what turned out to be the final years of my tenure there, 'AllThingsD' occupied me more and more and was much more fun.
Walt Mossberg
Me
Great
Street
Nothing
Final
Journal
More And More
Occupied
Street Journal
Tenure
Wall Street
Wall Street Journal
About
Bad
Fun
Had
More
Much
Out
Proud
Run
Say
Turned
Very
Wall
Years
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Apple very deliberately - and this was very much Steve Jobs' point of view - Apple has concentrated its cloud efforts on being invisible. So in other words, stuff just would sync and appear. You change your contacts on one of your devices, and it would appear on all your devices changed.
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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 relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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Relationship
Who
Everything
Google
Bill
Bill Gates
Despite
Fights
Gates
Mark
Mark Zuckerberg
Matches
Picked
Steve
Steve Jobs
Yelling
About
Even
Had
Jobs
Over
Written
Years
What we did with 'AllThingsD', though, was very different. We weren't taking a newspaper and putting it on the web; we were creating a digital native product, and we did it inside of a very old, stuffy newspaper company at the time.
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Time
Newspaper
Old
Inside
Digital
Native
Web
Company
Creating
Did
Different
Product
Putting
Taking
Though
Very
Were
I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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Great
Start
Beat
Quit
Beats
Column
Different Kind
Shifted
Tech
I Quit
Career
Different
Had
Kind
Series
Them
Washington
Which
The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
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I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
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Reporter
Variety
Beats
Years
Covering
Spent
Washington
My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
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Computers
Apple
First
Were
Apple II
I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could figure out how to use it quickly. Compare it to a DOS computer or even an Apple II; it's no longer nearly as much of a hassle or a mystery.
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Think
Information
Mystery
Need
Apple
Apple II
Appliance
Arrived
Compare
Hassle
iPad
Nearly
About
Child
Computer
Could
Even
Figure
How
I Think
Longer
Lot
Much
Out
Pretty
Quickly
Use
Wrote
I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.
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Writing
Right
Story
Now
Firing
Front Page
Iraq
Israel
January
Journal
Missiles
October
Page
Products
Tech
About
Front
Wall
Slack spread through businesses like wildfire, initially in the tech and media sectors, but now much more widely. At its public launch in February 2014, it had 17,000 users. As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7 million daily active users.
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Daily
Like
More
Media
Active
April
Businesses
February
Initially
Launch
Sectors
Slack
Spread
Tech
Users
Widely
Wildfire
Had
Million
Much
Now
Number
Public
Through
Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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Love
Me
Great
Service
Brag
Likes
Slack
Transparent
Users
About
Company
Fast
Including
Know
Many
Things
Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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History
Business
Competitors
Though
Application
Claims
Fastest
Plenty
Slack
Growing
For those still outside the cult of Slack, it's a service - available as a desktop or mobile app, or a website - which is essentially a series of public chat rooms (called channels) on topics relevant to a company or to teams within a company.
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Service
Website
Company
Outside
App
Available
Channels
Chat
Cult
Desktop
Essentially
Mobile
Relevant
Rooms
Slack
Teams
Topics
Public
Series
Still
Those
Which
Within
Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.
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You
Apple
Still
Wants
Hardware
Too
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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Like
Apple
Product
Patient
Arguably
Core
Decades
Hardware
Nursed
Terminal
Along
Been
Could
Least
Successful
Watch
Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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You
Time
May
New
App
Apps
Cable
Cable TV
Classic
Customer
Networks
Paying
Peak
Require
Streaming
Every
Every Time
Force
Hit
Huge
Many
Still
TV
Use
Want
Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.
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Time
Who
Company
Days
Devices
Owned
Pitch
Products
Shelves
Tech
Various
Visit
Many
Take
Younger
Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
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People
Credit
Apple
First
Apple II
Earlier
Mistakenly
PC
IBM
Came
Four
Many
Out
Though
Years
Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Everyone
Apple
Opposite
Microsoft
Crushed
Era
Mobile
Wars
1980s
1990s
PC
Exactly
Knows
Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.
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Apple
Key
First
Him
Architectural
Code
Edition
Features
Mac
Macintosh
Microsoft
Released
Returned
Steve
Steve Jobs
String
Versions
Windows
Another
Became
Brought
Jobs
Successful
System
Truly
Until
Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?
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Mature
Out
Plateau
Begun
What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
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Me
People
Go
Make
Another
Buy
Could
Out
Would
The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?
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Car
Mobile
Ultimate
Device
Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.
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Apple
Some
President
Been
Cook
Jeff
Operations
Senior
Tim
Vice
Vice President
Williams
Has-Been
I believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.
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Believe
Better
Tools
I Believe
Businesses
Consumers
iPad
Productive
Tablets
Tasks
Versatile
PC
Extremely
I Believe That
Many
Schools
Than
I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
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Day
More
Laptop
Half
iPad
Cut
Many
Than
Times
Use
How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.
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You
Believe
Think
Feel
Depends
Entirely
iPad
Mac
Replace
Steve
Steve Jobs
Tablet
PC
About
Back
Bigger
Company
He
How
Jobs
Lot
Make
Modern
Out
Set
Wrong
When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'
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Time
Will
Enough
Succeed
Alternative
iPad
Laptop
Prove
Replace
Reviewed
Tasks
Viable
Common
First
Make
Really
Wrote
What's the third smartphone platform? Is it Windows phone? Is Windows Phone going to finally get off the mat in the developed world? Amazon believes their platform has a chance to become the third.
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World
Chance
Phone
Become
Believes
Developed
Developed World
Finally
Mat
Platform
Third
Windows
Get
Going
Off
When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.
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Best
Walk
See
Door
Apple
Front Door
Giant
Microsoft
Samsung
Store
Stores
Windows
Buy
Front
I See
Now
Right
Those
Within
Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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May
New
Back
Still
Focused
Quite
I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.
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Me
Smart
Surprise
Big
Bets
Decades
Early Days
Days
Early
He
Known
Make
Since
Very
Willing
Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.
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Poor
Mistakes
Review
Makes
Flop
Launching
Gave
Including
Which
In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.
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There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there.
Walt Mossberg
Out
Social
Messaging
Put
Blizzard
Sites
You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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You
People
Grow
More
Content
Different Things
Engaged
Facebook
Giant
Trade
Also
Different
Including
Things
Want
Wants
Which
The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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Today
America
Tradition
Like
Dominant
Dynamic
Immigrant
Tech
Textile
19th Century
Became
Century
Deal
Huge
Industry
Kind
Most
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