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No major tech journalist knows patent law like @reckless. He’s a lapsed patent lawyer. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @reckless: Here I am asking Tim Cook why kept the Samsung parent lawsuit alive at D11 in 2013 with @waltmossberg and @karaswisher. His a… — PolitiTweet.org

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@reckless @karaswisher Great question. At our conferences, questions from attendees were almost always highly valuable and got worthwhile answers. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CityComforts @karaswisher Paul Allen had departed long before. He might still have been on the board, but I’m not sure. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HarrenGWarding I remember meeting with Bezos in the early days - when they were still in an old VA hospital in the suburbs (I think it had been a VA hospital) - and he had a door and sawhorses for a deck. It wasn’t our first meeting, but the first in his office. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sometimes we forget that these giant tech companies of today began as small start-ups, worrying about expenses. — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s a condensed version of an interview by @karaswisher and me of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer discussing their early days at Microsoft and their business philosophy. I find it fascinating. I’ll post more later. https://t.co/pluCONPvcm — PolitiTweet.org

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@benedictevans If Congress wants to give third party apps a boost, let the built-in ones stay and mandate user choice in defaults for many more types of apps than Apple now allows. I know people who already use different camera apps, calendars, mail, photos, music, even calculators. — PolitiTweet.org

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@benedictevans I agree. If they are pushing their own apps over third party apps in some unfair way, that should be addressed. But the idea that any computing device shouldn’t come with certain basic apps, like a texting app, a calculator, or software for the camera is just absurd. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonfortt Love that too. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonfortt I use my iPads more than my laptops. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonfortt Great shot! — PolitiTweet.org

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Ringo Starr turns 81 today. And Paul McCartney just turned 79. I vividly recall when @thebeatles burst onto the U.S. scene in 1963-64. I watched their TV debut and went off to college with at least one of their albums. They were viewed as young & rebellious in their day. — PolitiTweet.org

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Hard to believe now that they were once considered young and so rebellious that many parents tried to ban their kids from listening to them. The Stones were, of course, even worse in their eyes. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DesignerDrew @thebeatles Right. Sorry. — PolitiTweet.org

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Ringo Starr turns 81 today. And Paul McCartney turns 79 eleven days later. I vividly recall when @thebeatles burst onto the U.S. scene in 1963-64. I watched their TV debut and went off to college with at least one of their albums. https://t.co/BuAkbaRDgH — PolitiTweet.org

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@edbaig Terrific news, Ed! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ParikPatelCFA: On this day in 1994, Amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos in his garage. If he didn't have a garage, there would be no Amaz… — PolitiTweet.org

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@PhilKirshman 😉 — PolitiTweet.org

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Question for the Twitterverse: what’s the best solution if none of Apple’s 3 sizes of tips keeps the AirPods Pro securely in your ear. Mine fall out after a few minutes. Yet the original AirPods and improved models with that same design stay in comfortably and securely. — PolitiTweet.org

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Obviously, I meant AirPod Pro, not Max. — PolitiTweet.org

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@cheerose Yes, sorry. — PolitiTweet.org

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Question for the Twitterverse: what’s the best solution if none of Apple’s 3 sizes of tips keeps the AirPods Max securely in your ear. Mine fall out after a few minutes. Yet the original AirPods and improved models with that same design stay in comfortably and securely. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dsobeski David, when did you work at Apple? What was the era? We’re you a direct report to Steve? I’m purely curious due to your knowledge of his decision process. A lot of uninformed people think he just issued dictates and never was persuadable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JonErlichman And remember: this was a command-line computer that was three years before the first Mac. (Though it had been around and evolving for 4 years by 1981, long before the IBM PC, which launched in 1981 and which some mistakenly think was the first PC.) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JonErlichman: Apple’s July 4th ad in 1981: https://t.co/2MWwZS85ea — PolitiTweet.org

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The @redsox are not only leading their division, they have the best record in the American League and the most All-Stars. https://t.co/ffWNPtEppL — PolitiTweet.org

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@rahul3111 Thanks, but they continue today with a different name: the Code conference. Run by @karaswisher. https://t.co/vBsV4bnNB1 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ahoving @karaswisher Yes. We produced the conferences together and did these big interviews together. — PolitiTweet.org

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@spencersj @hbomax Agree. But the series is extraordinarily good TV and faithful to the book. He was involved in it. — PolitiTweet.org