Category: Quotes

“The Verge: We don’t mind dropping our paychecks on $500 tablets and $300 smartphones, but we draw the line at two dollar TV shows and fifteen dollar apps.”

— Harry Marks

“Also, are nightmares covered by AppleCare? Because my sleep mode is NOT working right.”

— Sam Weiner

“Yes, but the original iPad sells more than all other competitors combined. Either buyers vastly prefer 10″ tablets, or buyers vastly prefer iPads.”

— Watts Martin

“Respecting shared public space is becoming as quaintly archaic as tipping your hat to a lady, now that the concept of public space is as nearly extinct as hats, and ladies.”

— Tim Kreider

“The effective rule, therefore, is even simpler: ‘Don’t build anything for Twitter.’”

— Marco Arment

“What would happen if Samsung soaks up so much profit from mobile that it’s in a position to acquire Google and control the trajectory of their enabling platform?”

— Horace Dediu

“Love him or hate him, Scott Forstall’s departure makes Apple a more stable company, and I wonder if that is how it begins.”

— Michael Lopp

“Lyons is fond of claiming that innovation is over at Apple. In psychological terms, this is called projection.”

— The Macalope

“It’s better to have a few fantastic things designed for you than to have many untrustworthy things poorly designed to please everyone.”

— Dustin Curtis

“The Surface, by contrast, will let you do everything you want. The problem is that you’ll have no fun doing it.”

— Farhad Manjoo

“Both men have it in them to be their better selves; but the sad fact is that neither candidate has campaigned as if that is his plan.”

— The Economist

“Easy feels like a cold Coke on a hot day.”

— Jason Fried

“It was a deal with the devil, made in a moment of desperation, and it’s been haunting Google ever since.”

— Matthew Panzarino

“I considered buying one but, as I said below, asked myself this question: ‘Wouldn’t you rather have two iPad minis?’”

– John Moltz

“The Surface is partially for Microsoft’s world of denial: the world in which this store contains no elephants and Microsoft invented the silver store with the glass front and the glowing logo and blue shirts and white lanyards and these table layouts and the modern tablet and its magnetic power cable.”

– Marco Arment

“So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung guilty of infringement, other courts have recognized that in the course of creating its Galaxy tablet, Samsung willfully copied Apple’s far more popular iPad.”

— Apple U.K.’s Masterful Legal Notice

“Nobody asked me about my Surface. I tried flashing it all over the place. But despite my best efforts, no one seemed curious.”

— Matthew Honan

“The old backscatters will remain in smaller airports where time delays and public safety aren’t as much of an issue.”

— Richard Dunlop-Walters

“If someone can’t climb out of the details, and see the bigger picture from multiple angles, they’re often wrong most of the time.”

– Jeff Bezos via Jason Fried