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" 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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" Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review. "

" I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats. "

" I actually think it's against the rules at Vox Media to work there if you've never dropped an iPhone. "

" 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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" Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad. "

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" I wasn't surprised to find Samsung's OLED screen to be bright, vivid, and clear. It's beautiful, although in viewing some photos and videos, I found, as I have in the past, that - to my eye, at least - Samsung tends to oversaturate colors. "

" Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden. "

" 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. "

" Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some. "

" 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. "

" No computer or smartphone can ever be considered 100 percent 'safe.' We're all engaged in a perpetual battle with criminals and hostile governments trying to use computers and the Internet to steal information and identities. "

" 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. "

" I've been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I've spent a small fortune there over that span, visiting several times a week to pick up everything from milk to toothpaste to prescriptions. "

" Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter. "

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" I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself. "

" Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself. "

" There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968. "

" 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. "

" 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. "