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" Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person. "
Om Malik
Person
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" Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone. "
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" By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data. "
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" The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant. "
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" Uber, like Google, is taking a highly disorganized business - in its case, private transportation such as taxicabs and private limousines - and ordering it neatly. "
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" While in the early days of networks, growth was limited by slowness and cost at numerous points - expensive telephone connections, computers that crashed, browsers that didn't work - the rise of the smartphone has essentially changed all that. "
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" Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new? "
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" Before we had the Internet, we would either call or write to our friends, one at a time, and keep up with their lives. It was a slow process and took a lot of effort and time to learn about each other. "
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" I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I'm on a declining scale of wanting things. "
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" Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted. "
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" Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software. "
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" Sure, we all like listening to music on vinyl, but that doesn't mean streaming music on Spotify is bad. "
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" For the longest time, computers have been associated with work. Mainframes were for the Army, government agencies, and then large companies. Workstations were for engineers and software programmers. PCs were initially for other white-collar jobs. "
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" Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed. "
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" Apple continues to make ever-thinner devices with a superlative build and a luxurious feel. What the company has achieved beneath the surface is worth even more praise. "
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" There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?' "
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" Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices. "
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" Internet, for all its faults, exposed me to a lot more music. "
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" Sure, Google's and Apple's ecosystems look a little different, but they are meant to do pretty much the same thing. For the two companies, innovation on mobile essentially means catching up to the other's growing list of features. "
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" Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The next step in this transition is a digital economy shaped by connectivity. "
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" I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library. "
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" A platform is essentially a business model that thrives because of the participation and value added from third parties with only incremental effort from the owner of the platform. "
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" As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day. "
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" My definition of media? 'Anything which owns attention.' This could be a game or, perhaps, a platform. Ironically, the media tends to associate media with publishing - digital or otherwise - which, in turn, is too narrow a way to consider not only the media but also the reality of the competitive landscape and media-focused innovation. "
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" Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera. "
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" Just as two people can have similar personalities, two companies can have a remarkably similar approach to business. "
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" Everybody has a different interpretation of immigration problems, and it's a highly personal experience. If anyone tells you there is a uniform solution to it, there isn't. As far as I'm concerned, it worked for me. And I don't know how to fix the problem. "
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" Its definition can be a bit murky, but to me, native advertising is a sales pitch that fits right into the flow of the information being shown. It doesn't interrupt - native ads don't pop up or dance across the screen - and its content is actually valuable to the person viewing it. "
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" It is becoming harder for us to stay on top of the onslaught - e-mails, messages, appointments, alerts. Augmented intelligence offers the possibility of winnowing an increasing number of inputs and options in a way that humans can't manage without a helping hand. "
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" For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race. "
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