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" I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats. "
Walt Mossberg
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" Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts. "
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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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" Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter. "
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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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" 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
Good
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Journey
" Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden. "
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Looks
Adorable
" 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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" It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs. "
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Hard
Personal
Remember
" 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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Cult
Outside
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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. "
Walt Mossberg
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Immigrant
" I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself. "
Walt Mossberg
New Things
Chance
Myself
" 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
Now
Box
" 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. "
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Fun
Street
Run
" I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried. "
Walt Mossberg
Conclusions
Never
Products
" 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. "
Walt Mossberg
Customer
You
Want
" 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. "
Walt Mossberg
Phone
World
Become
" Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too. "
Walt Mossberg
Apple
You
Wants
" Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out? "
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Mature
Out
Begun
" 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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Watch
Patient
Successful
" I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence. "
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Influence
Country
Internet
" If Apple, Amazon, Netflix, or somebody else can ever blast away all the ridiculous vestiges of decades-old TV content and technology we live with today, I'll buy whatever they come up with. Until then, I'm settling for a Caavo. "
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Technology
Apple
Today
" Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977. "
Walt Mossberg
People
Apple
Credit
" 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. "
Walt Mossberg
Daily
Active
More
" 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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Early
Big
" 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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Journal
Career
Street
" 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. "
Walt Mossberg
Newspaper
Creating
Company
" There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there. "
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Out
Blizzard
Social
" 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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Company
Good
Sometimes
" 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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Trying
Apple
Google
" 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. "
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Man