54 Walt Mossberg Quotes for You to Enjoy

Walt Mossberg

American Journalist

Born: Mar 27, 1947

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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that. Walt Mossberg

Back Focused Kindle New Still Quite May

You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content. Walt Mossberg

You Facebook People Giant More Also Content Trade Different Want Wants Which Engaged Different Things Grow Including Things

Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden. Walt Mossberg

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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 disservice. Walt Mossberg

Together Disservice Software Excellent Advantage Does Builds Apple Hardware Designs

Apple's iTunes program was once the envy of the world. A combined digital music store and player, it could also sync your iPod. And it worked on both Mac and Windows. It was reasonably fast and very sure-footed. Walt Mossberg

My Safari bookmarks only sync intermittently across my Apple devices. Unlike Amazon's Kindle app for Apple products, the company's iBooks doesn't remember where I left off unless I set a bookmark. Walt Mossberg

Remember Sync Unless Unlike Kindle Only Devices Amazon Off Left Where Across App Products Company Apple Set

I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies. Walt Mossberg

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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products. Walt Mossberg

The products I review are typically lent to me by their manufacturers for a few weeks or months. I return any products I am lent for review, except for items of minor value that companies typically don't want back. In the case of these items, I either discard them or give them away to charity. Walt Mossberg

Me Charity Value Few Back Months Minor Case Give Except Weeks Discard Return Am Review Items Any Want Either Them Lent Products Manufacturers Companies Away

If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing. Walt Mossberg

Good Sometimes First Timing Publish Negotiate Strive Promise Outcome Be The First Exchange Never Review Decide Product Company Tone

Every few years, the feds and the courts change direction or fail to answer important questions. And every day, the Internet becomes more of a platform for lousy ads, for increasing the power of a few rich companies, and for intrusive tracking. It's too important to leave unprotected. Walt Mossberg

Day Change Every Day Internet Power Important Few Rich Every Too Increasing Intrusive Unprotected Direction More Ads Fail Tracking Answer Becomes Important Questions Courts Leave Years Questions Lousy Companies Platform

It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the 'Wall Street Journal' and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970. Walt Mossberg

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Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail. Walt Mossberg

Competition Citizen Email Mail Consumer Hot Since Like Another Yahoo Around Least Been Senior Form Among Services Early

For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out. Walt Mossberg

Home People Simplicity Problems Too Much Too Took Alive Out Windows More Computers Particular Sophisticated Bugs Became Greater Without Yearning Years Dominant Effort Personal Microsoft Problem-Solving Straighten Manner Much Required Use Users Many Even Platform Keeping

Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when. Walt Mossberg

In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he'd figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass. Walt Mossberg

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As for the device we now call a TV or a cable box, I want it to be fast with a clean interface and seamlessly upgradeable to the latest software. I want it to be the primary source of all TV, not an ancillary device. Walt Mossberg

Software Latest TV Clean Cable Primary Primary Source Device Call Box Source Want Interface Seamlessly Now Fast

If you buy the Chromebook Plus and intend to use it mainly as a Chromebook, I expect you'll have a good experience. But if you plan to rely heavily on Android apps, you're basically buying into the start of a journey, replete with odd-looking presentations of familiar apps, bugs and crashes. Walt Mossberg

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

Experience Apps Aptly Running Plus More iPad Samsung App Compared

It's called the Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it runs on an ARM processor, the same type of processor that powers the vast majority of smartphones and tablets. It was designed in close cooperation with Google. Walt Mossberg

Google Type Runs Tablets Plus Vast Vast Majority Arm Powers Majority Close Same Samsung Cooperation Designed

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