Tag: walt mossberg

Good night and good luck, Walt Mossberg

Walt Mossberg’s final weekly column. He started out in 1991 with “computers are just too hard to use”, and ends with the dangers of ambient computing and its power resting in a few companies: …if we are really going to turn over our homes, our cars, our health and more to private tech companies, on a scale never imagined, we need much, much stronger standards for security and privacy than now exist. Especially in the U.S., it’s time to stop dancing around the privacy and security issues and pass real, binding laws. But, as tectonic shifts like this occur in technology,

Re/Code opens up with an incendiary article to drive traffic

I really don’t want to use the term linkbait and Walt Mossberg in the same sentence, but as the former ‘All Things D’ team open up their site to the public (Re/Code) I’m hard pushed to think of a better term for ‘It’s Not a Church, It’s Just An Apple Store‘: The biggest tech religion is the Church of Apple, with countless blogs defending its every move, regardless of whether it’s a good one. Some carry a sort of permanent sense of suspicion from the old days of the 1980s, when using a Mac was considered weird by many. Apple cultists