Walt Mossberg Quotations

There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

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 try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.

People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

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.

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

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

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.

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.

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.

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Just remember: you're not a 'dummy,' no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who-though technically expert-couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.

Books should cost less and they should be digital.

I don’t recommend that average iPad Air owners upgrade to the Air 2. But what about the vast majority of iPad owners who own older models? That’s a different story. If you have an iPad 2, 3 or 4, the new Air 2 will make a big difference. Its thinness and lightness will be a dramatic change, and it will be faster and more fluid. However, here’s the catch: Upgrading to last year’s iPad Air would have pretty much the same effect, and that model is now, suddenly, $100 cheaper, starting at $399.

I've been testing RealPlayer Cloud on all these devices… I think RealPlayer Cloud is well-designed and makes storing and sharing videos easy across different devices.

Why shouldn't a PC work like a refrigerator or a toaster?

I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

People wouldn't go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that Facebook have been on a course to push people's information where it's visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff.

If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.