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. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
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. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
Amazon’s ‘Twitch’ appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
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. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
Ultimately, I don’t think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don’t know when. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
In August of 2011, Steve Jobs, the tech icon who disrupted a string of traditional industries, called me and told me he thought he’d figured out a way to revolutionize TV. He invited me to come see it at Apple in a few months, but he died just six weeks later, and that meeting never came to pass. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
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. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
With Caavo, you don’t have to know the device name, the network name, the service name. Just which show you want to watch, regardless of whether it’s live, recorded, downloaded or streaming. Walt Mossberg Read Quote
