Walt Mossberg
Walt Mossberg
Walter S. Mossbergis an American journalist who was, from 1991 through 2013, the principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He is currently Executive Editor of The Verge and Editor-at-Large of Recode, web sites owned by Vox Media. He writes a weekly column for both and also has a weekly podcast, Ctrl-Walt-Delete. He is also co-executive producer of the annual Code Conference. Dow Jones announced on September 19, 2013, that Mossberg would leave The Wall Street Journal as part...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth27 March 1947
CountryUnited States of America
If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.
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.
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.
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.