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The Most Powerful Man in Technology Journalism
prostoalex writes "The Wired magazine takes a look at Walt Mossberg, technology columnist for Wall Street Journal Personal Technology section. The magazine quotes some of the technology advances and fixes, for which we should be thankful to Walt Mossberg: 'RealNetworks overhauled its RealJukebox player. Intuit revamped TurboTax. Mossberg even forced Microsoft to scrap Smart Tags, which would have hijacked millions of Web sites by inserting unwanted links to advertisers' sites. Few reviewers have held so much power to shape an industry's successes and failures.'"
The iPod mini is crap though. The problem is that by and large people are stupid.
Was the iMac an absolutely wonderful,ground-breaking personal computer? No. It was just pretty and had a big handle on it. It looked non-threatening and barely had any ports or wires to scare people off. Things aren't necessarily a hit because they're any good.