Om Malik

“Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone.”

“When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps - native apps and HTML5 web-based apps.”

“My definition of media? 'Anything which owns attention.' This could be a game or, perhaps, a platform. Ironically, the media tends to associate media with publishing - digital or otherwise - which, in turn, is too narrow a way to consider not only the media but also the reality of the competitive landscape and media-focused innovation.”

“Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.”

“Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.”

“I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.”

“Business, much like life, is not a movie, and not everyone gets to have a storybook ending.”

“Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The next step in this transition is a digital economy shaped by connectivity.”

“In the simplest terms, a fast-growing company can't keep growing at the same fast rate forever. It eventually has to slow down.”

“The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.”

“The possibilities that come with thinking about the camera as a portal into the realm of information and services are attractive not only to Snap but also to every other big player in the tech world. Facebook, for instance, has slowly been enhancing the visual capabilities of its Messenger.”

“On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.”

“Now every person edits the story they tell about themselves, carefully ensuring what the world looks at - whether it's over Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.”

“The funny thing is that I used to be a blogger, but it wasn't known as 'blogging' at that time. This was in the '99/2000 time frame.”

“QR codes have always been a kind of half-measure, a useful but inelegant transitional technology; the ultimate goal is augmented reality.”

“Some media companies that rely on advertising revenue are tying journalist compensation to the traffic their story generates. It doesn't work because it de-prioritizes writing.”

“Pokemon Go, which involves trying to 'catch' Pikachu or Squirtle or other creatures with your smartphone, is an inherently social experience. You need to be walking around - on the streets, in public places - to catch the Pokemon.”

“Whether it is through stock-market trading or the sale of hotel rooms, the Internet has a way of bringing deflationary forces to all businesses that were hitherto inefficient and involved many middlemen.”

“Everybody's trying to repeat the past with the new network, with new devices and new tools. Why not make something brand-new?”

“Porsche's and Apple's design philosophies are similar. Much like the 356, the original iPhone was about defining a foundation for the future.”