Category: Quotes

“Hope the formatting of this column doesn’t get screwed up on the text-only mobile version you’re looking at.”

— The Macalope

“I have no doubt that Android is making money. What I SERIOUSLY doubt is just how much money Android is making.”

— John Kirk

“Windows 8 may end up being a positive first step, but it’s going to be a hard one for a lot of people to take.”

— John “Very Nice” Moltz

“Though they differed in their reasoning, the justices were unanimous in ruling that e-mail stored in the cloud (like Gmail or Yahoo Mail) does not meet the definition of electronic storage as written in the statute.”

— Cyrus Farivar

“If you find yourself mildly freaking out when you’re not near your phone, you might have nomophobia, otherwise known as the fear of losing or being unable to use a cellphone.”

— Mary Beth Quirk

“‘Exclusive’ is a way to dupe readers into taking you seriously, into believing that yours is the only page upon which they can devour the freshest and the latest. But that’s a lie. It always has been.”

— Jonathan Poritsky

“To expect them to do it again in the year since Jobs’ passing is unrealistic at best, self-indulgent claptrap at worst.”

— John Moltz

“It doesn’t matter who you were, how great your resume is and how many billions you have in the bank.”

— Om Malik

“And Fake Steve is dead, but the self-important drama queen lives on.”

— The Macalope

“And what does it say about a company’s values when they’re willing to spend advertising money to make fun of another company’s customers.”

— Peter Cohen

“Taking my phone out of my pocket to pay is just as forward thinking as taking my wallet out.”

— Cap Watkins

“Three of the top leaders at Apple sitting in a room full of writers and broadcasters, and everyone’s got the same phone in their pockets.”

— Shawn Blanc

“No surprise that two out of three of those are creepy.”

— John Gruber

“High-speed chases look like fun because they are.”

— Tim Dees

“Either you’re a big business or you can piss off. Small developers have been told they can play no part in this brave new world.”

— Terence Eden

“Nothing about it was obvious.”

— Farhad Manjoo

“We don’t need translation of the digital medium in mechanical real-life terms. It’s an old-fashioned paradigm.”

— Gadi Amit

“9to5Mac is the ‘used car salesman’ of Apple blogs (maybe a notch below DigiTimes).”

— Harry Marks

“Skeuomorphism helps people misunderstand the capabilities and limitations of digital products based on their understanding of a physical analog.”

— Wells Riley

“I write until my point is made and then I stop.”

— The Beard