After 22 Years, Walt Mossberg Writes Final WSJ Column 100
McGruber writes "Walt Mossberg, principal technology columnist for The Wall Street Journal, has written his last column after 22 years of reviewing consumer technology products for the newspaper. His final column discusses the dozen personal-technology products that were most influential over the past two decades."
Re:This list is missing something... (Score:4, Insightful)
That's listed under "iPhone."
I used to have respect for the WSJ and Walt ... (Score:1, Insightful)
5/12 of the products are from Apple. I'm surprised he didn't include polo necked sweaters and jogging shoes in the list
Richard Stallman must be turning in his grave.
Re:Doom (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:A tragic waste... (Score:5, Insightful)
Why did the NYT let a report called 'Walt Mossberg' write newb-level electronics reviews, rather than pushing him in the direction of being a hard hitting, hard drinking, crime-beat reporter with a tolerance for risk and a taste for vigilante justice?
It seems like such a waste...
Only in comics, man, only in the comics. Real world reporters on crime-beat tend to blame society now, it's the PC thing to do.
Re:Just say "Apple" (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure, but what were its competitors doing that changed the User Experience for the better?
Screwing up so bad they made Apple look amazingly good.
Re:I used to have respect for the WSJ and Walt ... (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, Apple may be a bit over-represented. (MacBook Air? Sure its form factor sparked a slew of of copycats known as 'ultrabooks', but it didn't exactly change the UX or how the general public used computers) But to use 'software libre' as the reason why they shouldn't be in this list at all is just stupid. For all that FOSS has done, it has been almost nonexistent as far as influence in general personal computing, largely because FOSS for the most part has still not figured out how to make UX not suck. And that is what this list is about - those products that have caused a watershed in how the general public does computing.
Re:Top product: You (Score:4, Insightful)
He has Google, FaceBook and Twitter on his list. In those three cases the product is You.
He should have had Alta Vista, USENET NEWS and IRC.
These successors have only made scads of money off ideas from real pioneers.