The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?

Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?

Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.

Books should cost less and they should be digital.

My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.

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

I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.

Apple is all-in on Apple hardware and still wants you to be all-in, too.

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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.

There's a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there.

I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.

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

I actually think it's against the rules at Vox Media to work there if you've never dropped an iPhone.

I want to thank Vox Media, The Verge, Recode, the 'Wall Street Journal,' and CNBC for giving me a voice.

Jeff Williams, Apple's senior vice president of operations, has been called 'Tim Cook's Tim Cook' by some.

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

Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.

Amazon makes mistakes, including launching a smartphone in 2014 that was a flop and to which I gave a poor review.

Practically every smartphone, tablet, and laptop is fabricated in a Chinese factory, even if they are designed here.

Though many people mistakenly credit IBM with the first PC in 1981, the Apple II came out four years earlier, in 1977.

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

In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

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

There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.

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

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

I believe... we were told that the 'Bluetooth AirPods', whatever they are, can be used on anything that supports Bluetooth audio.

Some businesses offer such a lousy customer experience that they are prime candidates for competition from Internet based stores.

Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.

Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

People think of Apple as a maker of excellent premium hardware. In fact, many reviewers regard Apple devices as the best you can buy.

You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.

I'm well aware that the Internet is global and can't be wholly affected by any one country. But the United States has outsized influence.

I've known Bezos for decades, since the very early days of Amazon, so it's no surprise to me that he's smart or willing to make big bets.

Compared to running apps on a smartphone or, more aptly, an iPad, the app experience on the Samsung Chromebook Plus is distinctly subpar.

Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.

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.

Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.

It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

Apple's advantage is that it designs and builds software together, so if the software isn't excellent, it does the superlative hardware a disservice.

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.

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.

It's often hard to remember that the personal computing era is still quite young. It only dates from 1977, with the arrival of the first mass-market PCs.

In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.

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.

Who co-founded Google? Sergey Brin, a Russian-born Jew whose family fled anti-semitism in the Soviet Union to settle here and who considers himself a refugee.

I'm happy to report that the first Chromebook designed from the ground up to run Android apps out of the box has arrived, albeit a little past the end of 2016.

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