Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.

In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.

The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.

The iPad is far and away the most successful product in its category.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple.

A great laptop running the new kinds of user interfaces and apps that people now love on phones and tablets would be a big, exciting event that would help seal the deal. But there hasn't yet been a product that emphatically suggests the era of the traditional PC is fading.

With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.

I believe that tablets - and especially the iPad - are extremely versatile and productive tools for consumers, schools and businesses and are better for many tasks than the PC or the smartphone.

We have Windows 8 machines for our office. All of our staff have Windows phones. Some have desktops. We have a couple of folks who are using a Surface. I use a Surface.

A smartphone is a computer - it's not built using a computer - the job it does is the job of being a computer. So, everything we say about computers, that the software you run should be free - you should insist on that - applies to smart phones just the same. And likewise to those tablets.

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.

Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

The iPad changed my life!

Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

I think most people in the developed world would admit to carrying some sort of handheld device, whether it's a laptop or a cell phone, at all times.

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do.

It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan.

Android is often given as a free replacement for a feature phone, and the experience isn't as good as an iPhone.

When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with.

The computer has moved to the palm of our hands now.

Computing is a big segment. It's more than just mobile devices or PCs and laptops.

The job of the iPad should be to be so powerful and capable that you never need a notebook.