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After 22 Years, Walt Mossberg Writes Final WSJ Column
McGruber writes "Walt Mossberg, principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, has written his last column after 22 years of reviewing consumer technology products for the newspaper. His final column discusses the dozen personal-technology products that were most influential over the past two decades."
Why did the NYT let a report called 'Walt Mossberg' write newb-level electronics reviews, rather than pushing him in the direction of being a hard hitting, hard drinking, crime-beat reporter with a tolerance for risk and a taste for vigilante justice?
It seems like such a waste...
So ubiquitous people forget we have them. And where we left them :)
Yes, but I was doing it on my Treo 600 four years before the first hipster cracked their iPhone screen.
If you really want another PDA/Phone thing...it belongs to blackberry. They were heavily used in their own right, and they directly contributed to the success of the iphone...people had them thrust upon them at work, were already warmed to the idea of a smartphone, and now are mostly using iphones. They may have clung to the BB for a long time, but when their kids and family all had iphones and they realized it could do everything their BB could do in a more friendly manner (and without running a BES), they were ready to move.
Bottles.
Sure, but what were its competitors doing that changed the User Experience for the better?
Screwing up so bad they made Apple look amazingly good.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Apple doesn't understand Software Libre at all
More like, you do not understand Apple, and the HUGE degree to which they have based success on top of open source.
BSD, and LLVM are but two of the largest and most obvious examples. But also Apple has used open standards when possible, like CalDav or VNC...
Yes Apple (like ALL companies currently) uses IP for competitive advantage. But they do so on top of a very thick layer of Free software...
the marketing dollars from Apple are just too tempting.
He got nothing from Apple for writing the article. What you and others misunderstand is the simple fact that many people LIKE using Apple products. That must go double for a guy like WM who tests many new electronic devices, you have to figure he gets a lot of stinkers and so more than most can appreciate something built well.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
iPod? Why not the Creative Nomad.
Speaking as a former Nomad owner, your comment is like saying, "Ferrari? Why not a Ford Pinto?"