John Battelle Quotes

I'm not a techie, but I don't know how I lived without an iPad! Mine comes with me everywhere. As greatest inventions go, it's up there with electricity and cars.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

I have the bigger iPad, but the Mini is the best. It just seems perfect. The old one seems so big and heavy. I like simple and clean.

I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world.

The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'

I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could figure out how to use it quickly. Compare it to a DOS computer or even an Apple II; it's no longer nearly as much of a hassle or a mystery.

What's great about the iPad and iPhone is that they are easy-on, easy-off.

Performance matters because games are built on great performance, but form factor and energy efficiency matter incredibly because they want to build something that's portable and transformable.

I never really started to carry a cellular phone until it was small enough so I could put it on my belt and not even feel it was there.

I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.

The iPad remains Apple's second bestselling product - all the more reason why the iPad Pro needs to be "big" in every sense of the word.

The correct form factor for a laptop is obviously 12" and 2 lbs, and I don't understand why everybody gets that wrong.

I love my iPad Pro and my Apple pencil. They have changed the way I work in really cool ways.

The power of change that mobile technology unleashes is extraordinary.

The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.

The Kindle app runs on iPads, BlackBerry, and Android devices, so you can read your books wherever you want; with Apple, you're locked into Apple devices.

To play with mobility is what matters.