Walt Mossberg

Walt Mossberg @waltmossberg

I’m just a board member of the fast-growing @NewsLitProject, but if you got this job, you’d be a senior player in the thick of the battle to teach kids how to tell facts from falsehoods. Apple backs us. So do teachers in every state. We’re scaling fast. Come tell our story. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alanmillerNLP: An excellent opportunity to join a growing national educational nonprofit focused on giving facts a fighting chance. htt… — PolitiTweet.org

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@pbaker @Apple I don’t know what happened with that idea. But I do know that TV hardware margins are low compared to Apple’s usual margins. And, even if they offered a high-priced, high-margin TV, the sales would be limited (people see TVs a commodity item) and the replacement cycle is long. — PolitiTweet.org

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@PeteFrangie @RedSox @Yankees I had another heart attack every time Kimbrel came in to close a game in the post-season, Pete. — PolitiTweet.org

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Optimistic about my World Champion @RedSox this year. Last year’s ace Chris Sale is back and healthy. Last year’s MVP and hitting leader Mookie Betts too. They have the best outfield defense in MLB. The @Yankees will be tough. The bullpen plan is unusual. But I’m psyched. #GoSox — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @omertene: When the world’s #1 product is advertised using privacy as a tagline, you know #privacy has arrived https://t.co/yuJculBpo4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@danielpunkass @Apple AT&T (then called Cingular) was about to rebrand itself. It needed something really big. That’s mainly why it took the iPhone on Steve Jobs’s terms. That same year (2007) Jobs admitted in his joint interview with @BillGates that Apple wasn’t great at partnering. — PolitiTweet.org

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As hard as you try, you can't make my comment about politics. I'm simply talking about the difference between facts and speculation. Even if the report was about, say, whether to widen a local street, you are wiser to wait till you know what it says before debating what it means. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nytimesbusiness This is scare-mongering based on dream plans. I’m certain any Medicare-for-all plan that actually passes will allow for optional private coverage. Hell, even today’s Medicare requires a private insurer for drug coverage and recipients typically carry private supplemental plans. — PolitiTweet.org

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I couldn’t agree with this more. Wait for the journalists who are working on finding out what’s in it. Until then, it’s all a waste of pixels, airtime, and ink. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cyclonus @Apple That was largely because Steve Jobs was their largest shareholder, after selling them Pixar. — PolitiTweet.org

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I love good products from small startups. So, when I saw that ⁦@zoom_us⁩ was going public, I dug up my positive 2012 review of the service, done when it was in pre-release with under 1,000 users. Congrats, ⁦@ericsyuan⁩. https://t.co/yFiEu8zisz — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ In the past, @Apple used hot new hardware mega-hits to gain and keep big partners like the record labels and phone carriers. And it has kept control. Now it’s relying on a huge installed base, which is no small edge. But partnerships are hard, especially if you like control. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ It strikes me that the biggest challenge for @Apple in pulling off its new subscription video streaming and news services will be working well with big-name branded partners, as opposed to vendors or app developers. That has never been a strength at Apple, or even in its DNA. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dglasser Ha! Just walk right out of those shadows! — PolitiTweet.org

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@harrymccracken It was called the “Butterfly”. I had one in my tech mini-museum for years. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alanmillerNLP: A new study finds that 57% of Americans think that the First Amendment is under threat but that many can't name the free… — PolitiTweet.org

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Make. It. Public. All of it. Without redaction. #makeitpublic https://t.co/uuDlW3qZZ8 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @damasoreyes: Come work with me, @NewsLitProject hiring a SVP of Communications https://t.co/5EEOg1ohLR @nabj @nahj @aaja @NYABJ @Wri… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @stevesi: Microsoft resurrects Clippy and then brutally kills him off again https://t.co/zBztJJBdMO via @Verge // I know Clippy. Clippy… — PolitiTweet.org

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@mlitman I do. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ This is despite a smaller advantage in diagonal measures. That’s because the mini is more square (4:3) while phones are tall and narrow. It also means the mini’s screen is a much better display for a full web page, book page or large graphic. Even with bigger bezels. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ Here’s a little more about why the iPad mini is a very different beast than even a large iPhone - and much better for work or reading. I checked the official figures, and the actual surface area of the screen is more than double that of the iPhone XS, XR or 8+. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @stakwild: @waltmossberg Apparently a lot of people didn't study or forgot Pythagoras... Diagonals from screens with different aspect ra… — PolitiTweet.org

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@HC_Reseller Never buy what you don’t need or want. But, just so you know, the iPad mini screen is way larger than the one on the 8+, and it runs iPad apps which are more like Mac/PC apps than iPhone apps are. — PolitiTweet.org

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@heyyoudvd @stevesi Of course that’s right. But most iPad apps, as opposed to phone apps, have extra panels and other UI features that assume landscape. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DawnC331: Apple TV App To Get A Second Life With Video Subscription Service via @forbes https://t.co/S0iRL992c5 — PolitiTweet.org

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@willsmith @stevesi Nope. When he first showed it to me privately, he did the same thing. When I got my hands on it, it was just natural. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DatingRev @nvidia How many truly tablet-optimized apps did it offer? If it was an Android tablet, the answer is ha… https://t.co/8tayAGSI5M — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesi I agree. With the iPad, even at its launch in 2010, it wasn’t immediately clear how it was meant to be ori… https://t.co/GQSOOR0vqW — PolitiTweet.org