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Walt Mossberg groups perception people Some businesses offer such a lousy customer experience that they are prime candidates for competition from Internet based stores. Walt Mossberg stores internet competition If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener. Walt Mossberg garage doors thinking I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week. Walt Mossberg technology writing running People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown. Walt Mossberg risk worry people I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried. 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Walt Mossberg innovation technology business action The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America. Walt Mossberg new you driving time Big screens helped propel Samsung to top-tier prominence and helped iPhone sales explode a few years later. But for many, including myself, the biggest-screen models just weren't practical, because their overall size made them too large, too bulky, and too heavy. Walt Mossberg iphone big myself size The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call. Walt Mossberg powerful white house time Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts. Walt Mossberg service internet practice people I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself. Walt Mossberg new myself new-things chance
