Walt Mossberg

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RT @reckless: There's no reason to trust mobile carriers when they make promises about mergers — the last time Sprint made promises about a… — PolitiTweet.org

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@efp722 @Pixar @NatGeo I’m sure you did. But there’s a whole history of Pixar-Disney animosity. The Disney animators scoffed at Pixar’s style. And Steve Jobs, who owned Pixar, fought bitterly with the then Disney CEO over Disney’s financial demands for distributing the films. — PolitiTweet.org

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Even in the case of @Pixar, whose films Disney always distributed, and whose eventual sale to Disney made Steve Jobs the giant company’s largest individual shareholder, it looks a little odd. Pixar digital animation was once regarded as anti-Disney, or post-Disney, and a threat. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Disney+ app shows in one place all the many cultural touchstones Disney has acquired over the years, in addition to those it created. Even though I knew about these deals, it was a bit jarring to see things like The Simpsons under the Disney umbrella. Not bad, just striking. https://t.co/HhZNypk1Y3 — PolitiTweet.org

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@pierce Congrats! Will they have stipple drawings like all the cool news organizations? — PolitiTweet.org

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@IMAGINIF_ @disneyplus No idea. Disney content is vastly larger. Business purposes are very different. Audiences may be too. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pkafka Not in late 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. Maybe not ever, unless the company and its behavior is totally overhauled. — PolitiTweet.org

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More on day one for @disneyplus. The app has installed easily for me on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, and the service runs fine on my Mac via the Web. I’m still seeing some errors, but have been able to sample at least a few minutes of various shows and movies on all devices. — PolitiTweet.org

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Good for them for owning the launch day issues. — PolitiTweet.org

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@akruglov @pkafka @disneyplus @verizon I agree on Verizon. Much smoother than I feared. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pkafka @disneyplus @verizon https://t.co/VfQNHzGF9g — PolitiTweet.org

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@pkafka @disneyplus @verizon I’ll watch anything with Lou Grant. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pkafka This appeared after a 100% successful @disneyplus signup and verification via the @verizon free offer. The whole thing appeared fine on Web, but this is what happened on the app, which does verify my account. It just won’t show me programming. https://t.co/31iJrKpPPY — PolitiTweet.org

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@salmerchant @ewarren @nytimes I haven’t advocated any solution. And I ran a small business I and my partner built with “blood, sweat and tears” to use your copied and dramatic phrase. I’m only pointing out that your definition of “middle class” is way off. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PaulBell55 @WSJ @dicktofel @KMPensiero @crovitz I loved it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@salmerchant @ewarren @nytimes Not according to any credible statistics. I’d love for you to tell a large group of retail, food service, warehouse or factory workers that a person or family earning $800k-$1 million a year is “middle class”. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ayyar @Google HIPAA is outdated and obviously insufficient to protect patients. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is why (a) we need a federal privacy law and (b) @google can’t be trusted and (c) neither can some giant hospital networks. Note that patients’ were in the dark and consent wasn’t obtained. https://t.co/b78Os0S1sK — PolitiTweet.org

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@anotherhelen @verge @sokane1 Happy Anniversary, Helen! Your positive impact on @Verge has been immeasurable since you were a teenage attendee at @CES! — PolitiTweet.org

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@RobGlaser I know. — PolitiTweet.org

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On this Veteran's Day, I salute all our veterans, including my late father, Jack Mossberg, who enlisted right after Pearl Harbor at the age of 19 and served as a torpedoman on a PT boat in the Pacific Theater during World War II. https://t.co/hvYHzfZBah — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ I’m a capitalist and I’m not against people getting rich. I know 6 of the men on the chart. But, if even a radical, detailed, wealth tax plan like this would still leave all these folks as plutocrats, while others struggle, it’s one more sign of our worrying income inequality. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ The Times computes that Jeff Bezos would still be worth $49 billion, Bill Gates $14 billion & Michael Bloomberg $12 billion. The Forbes 400 would average “only” about $3 billion instead of $7 billion. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ Even if you oppose @ewarren , study this @nytimes chart for a few minutes as a thought exercise. It shows that, even if her planned wealth taxes were law way back in 1982, the top billionaires would still be billionaires many times over. So it’d be hard to feel bad for them. https://t.co/OSR5t4Nl5J — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m glad to see the @nytimes devote a thoughtful article to the work of the great Joe Pesci. But I’m sorry that the author chose to gloss over his brilliant performance in the wonderful, underrated “My Cousin Vinny”, which showed his comedy chops so well. https://t.co/EggJhdANkY https://t.co/zpIsxQjwX3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Only 8 days till the great media reporter ⁦@pkafka⁩ opens the best media-and-tech conference of the year. The topics are richer than ever. https://t.co/NYp4OGyVxL — PolitiTweet.org

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@thegreatgadsby @inafried @reckless I like it. But there also has to be a clearer “no” or “no thanks” as an alternative. They can add text, as they often do, saying you can change your mind later via settings. — PolitiTweet.org

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I second this opinion by @reckless and reaffirm his answer to a person who implied he should be helping companies: it’s not his job to help companies. It’s his job to either praise them or criticize them based on the products and features they produce. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lizadonnelly @nycmarathon @LLSusa @teamintraining Donated! And good luck. — PolitiTweet.org

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@IamSuzanneCryer @SiliconHBO He’s done a great job. You all have. — PolitiTweet.org