David Pogue

David Pogue in 2010

David Pogue (born March 9, 1963) is a technology writer, journalist and commentator. He is a personal technology columnist for the New York Times, an Emmy-winning tech correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning, and weekly tech correspondent for CNBC. He has written or co-written seven books in the For Dummies series, including Macintosh computers. In 1999, he launched his own series of computer how-to books, called the Missing Manual series, which now includes over 100 titles covering a wide variety of personal computer operating systems and applications.

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• Microsoft, as you may have noticed, hasn't exactly been hitting home runs lately. Only a fraction of the population upgraded to Windows 95; much of cor­porate America, having finally got the kinks out of Windows 3.1, has no inten­tion of budging. Suppose, then, that the air gradually begins leaking out of Microsoft's tires. Subsequent Windows versions become absolute monstrosities, laughable bloat­ware that requires 128MB of RAM.
  •  "The Apple Doomsday Scenario". Macworld magazine, February 1998. pp. 192, 194.
• Incredibly, Apple has persuaded Disney, which owns ABC, to make available all episodes of five TV series, including "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and "That's So Raven." Each show costs $1.99 — an easy impulse buy if you missed an episode. They play back beautifully, with no network logo in the corner, no yearlong wait for the DVD, and no commercials. (One 43-minute "hour" of TV takes 12 minutes to download with my cable modem, and about two minutes to transfer to the iPod over its U.S.B. 2.0 cable.) ...That Mr. Jobs persuaded Disney to dip its pinky toe into these waters is an impressive development — and a very promising sign.
  • "An iPod Worth Keeping an Eye On," The New York Times, October 18, 2005.

• Five billion dollars a year spent on ringtones? What the?
  • "Pogue’s Imponderables," The New York Times, October 18, 2007.

• For the last 15 years, Microsoft’s master business plan seems to have been, "Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it."
  • "State of the Art: Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better," The New York Times, July 09, 2009.

• People won’t start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.
  • "State of the Art: Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better," The New York Times, July 09, 2009.

• You're witnessing the birth of a third major computer platform: Windows, Mac OS X, iPhone.
  • "Hello BlackBerry, Meet the iPhone," The New York Times, March 13, 2008.

• The Kindle is the most successful electronic book-reading tablet so far, but that’s not saying much; Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of e-book reader projects.
  • "The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now," The New York Times, February 24, 2009.

• The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades — ka-ching!
  • "The Kindle: Good Before, Better Now," The New York Times, February 24, 2009.

Attributed

• An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour.
  • MacWEEK magazine

External links

• David Pogue's Official website
• David Pogue's 22-minute talk at TED Conference (2006) Monterey, CA
• David Pogue on the music wars at TED Conference (2007) Monterey, CA
• David Pogue on Twitter