Walt Mossberg Quotes

The iPad changed my life!

I really like the iPad. I think that's pretty cool.

All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

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

In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.

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

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

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

I think that some people will never buy a computer because I think now we're at the point where the iPad does what some people want to do with their PCs.

I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.

How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to do with the iPad back in 2010. If you believe he was out to make a bigger smartphone or to entirely replace the Mac and PC, you're wrong.

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 I could get Office on a tablet, I'd throw my laptop away.

For me, iPad 2 and tablets in general are really exciting from a front-facing camera perspective, making those short video clips where you're talking about where you are or what you're interested in, and your face fills up the entire screen.

I love my iPad Pro and my Apple pencil. They have changed the way I work in really cool ways.

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've become President of the Author's Guild, and, in part because they thought I had to know what I was talking about and also as a sort of coronation present, they got me an iPad. And I have to tell you, I'm crazy about it. It's got some bugs, but it's basically replaced my laptop. I'm very happy with 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 is far and away the most successful product in its category.

Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.

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.

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.

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