Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was an early user of AOL - so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses. "

" 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. "

" How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one? "

" Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac. "

" 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. "

" Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here. "

" The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America. "

" 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. "

" People think of Apple as a maker of excellent premium hardware. In fact, many reviewers regard Apple devices as the best you can buy. "

" Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook. "

" I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half. "

" There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.' "

" I'm happy to report that the first Chromebook designed from the ground up to run Android apps out of the box has arrived, albeit a little past the end of 2016. "

" Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be. "

" 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. "

" 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. "