Om Malik Quotes

I think Apple is a great device company.

Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection.

I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.

I've been a Mac guy for almost my entire adult life. I wrote my first college papers on a typewriter, but by the end of my freshman year - almost 20 years ago - I was on an IBM PC. Then, in 1984, I found the Mac, and I never looked back.

You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window.

One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

I see the Mac being a key part of Apple for the long term, and I see growth in the Mac for the long term.

If I look to any company as a model, it's Apple. They're a brilliant design company working to create a lifestyle.

That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.

Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.

I use Windows; '98 second edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now.

Xiaomi looks a bit like Apple but is really more like Amazon with some elements of Google.

I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

The reason Apple is really good, I think, and the reason their stores succeeded, is not just 'cause we know the big idea, but we have a real passion for the littlest detail. It's legendary in our products.

Why is it that I notice so many brilliant scientists using Macs for their personal computers; why does the Lawrence Livermore & Berkeley Labs buy millions of dollars worth of Macs?

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

I've loved some gadgets that were not worthy, and I've loved gadgets that I would have loved more if I had waited for their developers to figure out how to really make them work, but I loved them anyway.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

There were many things that led to the iPhone at Apple. We were searching for what to do after iPod that would make sense.

If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

Apple took the edge off the word 'computer.'

The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs's genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts.