Walt Mossberg Quotes

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

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.

I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.

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

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

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

The iPhone was broadly dismissed. The iPod was broadly dismissed. The iPad was probably more copiously written off as a large iPod.

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.'

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

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.

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

I love the iPhone - I'm a huge Mac and Apple fan.

The iPhone revolutionised the mobile industry, rather like the iPod before it with the personal music player.

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

I do everything on my phone!

When we started work on the iPhone, the motivation there was we all pretty much couldn't stand our phones, and we wanted a better phone.

If you look at iPod, iPod wasn't viewed as a success, but today it's viewed as an overnight success. The iPhone was the same way. People were writing about there's no physical keyboard. Obviously nobody would want it.

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

Nobody ever imagined how quickly the Android mobile-phone platform would take off - not even Andy Rubin, the Silicon Valley engineer who created it.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

Practically everyone is going to have a general purpose computer in their pocket, it's so easy to underestimate that, that has got to be the really, really big one.

The iPad changed my life!

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.

Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.