Douglas Rushkoff Quotes

I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.

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

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.

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

I've tried plenty of telephones. I tried to get into the Samsung Galaxy and the Blackberry, but the iPhone is just too easy to use. The camera takes clear pictures and the phone itself looks great. Like all Apple products, it kind of just makes sense.

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 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.

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.

As Apple continues to release new styles of netbooks, laptops, and even desktops with untold movie-watching and game-playing capabilities, I wouldn't be surprised to see the iPhone operating system running on them - and the Macintosh eventually becoming a thing of the past.

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.

The iPad's all about proprietary apps that are supposed to be amazing on the bigger screen.

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

Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.

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

In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.

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

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

The iPod Touch is basically an iPhone with the phone part taken out, which is fine - since making calls is the one thing that the iPhone doesn't actually do very well.

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

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

I really think the app store is kind of the killer app for Apple and for Google.

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

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