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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. "
Walt Mossberg
Watch
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Successful
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Street
" 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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" 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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Use
" 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. "
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Sometimes
" With Caavo, you don't have to know the device name, the network name, the service name. Just which show you want to watch, regardless of whether it's live, recorded, downloaded or streaming. "
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Want
" 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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Creating
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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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Apple
Change
" 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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Trade
People
" 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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iPad
Half
Day
" Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here. "
Walt Mossberg
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Laptop
Here
" 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
End
Good
Ideas
" 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. "
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Change
Day
Rich
" 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. "
Walt Mossberg
Child
Information
Need
" Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets. "
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Apple
Phones
Like
" 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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America
Tradition
Immigrant
" Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants. "
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Software
Immigrants
Our
" 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 system. The consortium, called the Merchant Customer Exchange, or MCX, is in large part all about eliminating, or at least reducing, the fees banks charge retailers for swiping credit cards. "
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Own
Credit
Cards
" Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket. "
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Phones
Big
Galaxy
" A great laptop running the new kinds of user interfaces and apps that people now love on phones and tablets would be a big, exciting event that would help seal the deal. But there hasn't yet been a product that emphatically suggests the era of the traditional PC is fading. "
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New
Love
Great
" 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. "
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Company
Left
Apple
" I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice. "
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Giving
Media
Voice
" 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. "
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Alive
Simplicity
Effort
" 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
Unpredictable
Personal
" 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
Amazon
Gave
" 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
Early
Big
" 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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Page
You
Curiosity
" I actually think it's against the rules at Vox Media to work there if you've never dropped an iPhone. "
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Rules
" 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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Apple
" It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided. "
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Money
World