Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

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 didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

I am an Apple guy. I got the iPhone 4 the day it came out. I have a MacBook.

Is it possible for Apple or anyone else to rule in the mobile realm the way Microsoft did on the desktop? The way to do this is to go mass-market with a device that can do anything the others can do.

There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.

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.

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

I do like the iPhone. I've been a Blackberry person from, like, literally day one of Blackberry, so it's been a real switch, but it's a great device.

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

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.

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.

I use the iPhone and iPad every day, and I no longer touch PCs at all.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

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.

Mobile is something I think about all the time now.

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

How do you show off the most anticipated product in years? That was my dilemma with the iPhone X. Since my unit was one of the first few released into the wild, it naturally drew a lot of curiosity when I pulled it out of my pocket and gave it a dewy-eyed glance to wake it from slumber.

BlackBerrys are divine instruments.

By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.

I do everything on my phone!

God love the iPhone. Best time waster of the century.

I think the iPhone is the best consumer product ever. That's what I feel about it. And it's become so integrated and integral to our lives, you wouldn't think about leaving home without it.

I've never used an app.