Om Malik Quotes

Om Malik

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 29, 1966

Twitter is short-form, real-time, and text-based. It's built for instant alerts and rapid consumption. It is an ideal system for delivering sips of information from an abundant stream.

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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.

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

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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.

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I love my paper and ink, but I see the benefits of the iPad and Apple Pencil.

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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.

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I worry about Google's data ethics and about the idea of handing over the corpus of my life, but I can't deny that it is exceptional at making sense of my ever-growing photo library.

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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.

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

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Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software.

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By now, we all know that our every move online can be tracked and traced, and that, ideally, services learn from and adapt to customers based on an artful deployment of that data.

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Because Apple's corporate DNA is that of a hardware company, its activities are meant to support hardware sales.

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Compared to Apple, Internet companies like Google and Facebook don't have strong perspectives on the way they want the world to work.

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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.

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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.

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Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched in 2007. Nokia thought that the iPhone used inferior technology; the camera makers thought that it took lousy pictures. Neither thought that they had anything to worry about.

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Photography has always been about capturing light.

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If you're texting a friend about dinner, Google will give you restaurant reviews and directions automatically.

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Apple continues to make ever-thinner devices with a superlative build and a luxurious feel. What the company has achieved beneath the surface is worth even more praise.

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The battle between Google and Apple has shifted from devices, operating systems, and apps to a new, amorphous idea called 'contextual computing.' We have become data-spewing factories, and the only way to make sense of it all is through context.

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