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“Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices.”
“There is better than a good chance that while relaxing on a beach somewhere or sipping a martini in your favorite lounge, you have heard music that makes raise your eyebrow and ask, 'What kind of music is that?'”
“Just as two people can have similar personalities, two companies can have a remarkably similar approach to business.”
“From analog film cameras to digital cameras to iPhone cameras, it has become progressively easier to take and store photographs. Today, we don't even think twice about snapping a shot.”
“As an online journalist, newswire journalist, newspaper writer, I wrote every day. My whole thing was, 'I have to write and report and write every day.' That was my thing.”
“I want fewer interruptions in my day. I have eliminated a lot of things from my life. I'm on a declining scale of wanting things.”
“Google came of age when search was inefficient and cluttered, and made it simple and easy to find what you wanted online.”
“We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.”
“Sure, Google's and Apple's ecosystems look a little different, but they are meant to do pretty much the same thing. For the two companies, innovation on mobile essentially means catching up to the other's growing list of features.”
“Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements.”
“Augmented reality is the 'boy who cried wolf' of the post-Internet world - it's long been promised but has rarely been delivered in a satisfying way.”
“As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.”
“Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes.”
“In the touch-based mobile device era, folks need to think of ways to have a single technology stack married to the ability to create unique experiences for different devices.”
“Instead of standing in the way, technology is increasingly an enabler of emotion. A message at the wrong time at dinner can turn a gourmet dish into something insipid because of the interruption.”
“In a way, digital cameras were like very early personal computers such as the Commodore 64 - clunky and able to do only a few things.”
“Its definition can be a bit murky, but to me, native advertising is a sales pitch that fits right into the flow of the information being shown. It doesn't interrupt - native ads don't pop up or dance across the screen - and its content is actually valuable to the person viewing it.”
“Ideally, Facebook would take all our clicks and information and would magically give us everything we want, without us even knowing we want it.”
“In 1947, Porsche began work on its 356. In many ways, it was like the original iPhone. It wasn't perfect. It was underpowered. But it was streamlined and aerodynamic.”
“The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.”