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" Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden. "
Walt Mossberg
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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. 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. "
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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. "
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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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" Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants. "
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" There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook. "
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" 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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" There are lots of reasons email persists, even as faster and simpler forms of communication proliferate and your personal communications likely have mostly migrated elsewhere. But one big one is that new types of media channels rarely totally kill off old ones, even though everyone predicts they will. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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
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1980s
" 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. "
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Value
Accept
Advertising
" 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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" Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses. "
Walt Mossberg
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Defeat
" 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. "
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See
Apple
Me
" People think of Apple as a maker of excellent premium hardware. In fact, many reviewers regard Apple devices as the best you can buy. "
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Best
Apple
Think
" 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
" Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward. "
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Google
" 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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Credit
Cards
" 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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" I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio. "
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Were
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" My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II. "
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First
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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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" 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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Technology
" 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 models just weren't practical, because their overall size made them too large, too bulky, and too heavy. "
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Years
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iPhone
" 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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" The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it? "
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" 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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" I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice. "
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