Walt Mossberg Quotes

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

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

I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I just want to smash it.

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

The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.

There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.

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

The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

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.

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.

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.

Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.

Though the first iPhone was expensive, it was such a refreshing new product that early users flocked to it.

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

It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.

Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.

The iPhone was the first phone that brought what we used to think of as 'desktop quality' software to a handheld platform: software where you just say, 'Wow, that's a great user experience,' not merely, 'Wow, that's a great user experience for a handheld.'

I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.

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.

Phones and tablet PCs are primarily consumption devices and not typically used for creation of content. It's here that we need PCs.

I'm always trying whatever the latest telephone is.

I have four Macs, four iPads, and two phones, and I upgrade them all to the newest build pretty much every day.