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- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Israel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
- Competitors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
- Desktop
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.
- Apple II
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Microsoft's Windows 3.1, released in 1992, was the first truly successful edition of Windows and juiced the Redmond juggernaut. Apple's Macintosh System 7.5, released in 1994, was another in a string of versions that lacked key architectural features that the Mac didn't have until Steve Jobs returned and brought with him the code that became OS X.
- Mature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
What could a smartphone do for me that would make people go out and buy another one?
- Device
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- Nov 07, 2020
The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Door
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I walk into a Best Buy, I now see, right from the front door, a giant Apple logo. I see a giant Samsung logo. I see a giant Microsoft Windows logo. And those are stores within a store.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Messaging
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Large
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Concentrated
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- Nov 07, 2020