Om Malik Quotes
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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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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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When I see Kickstarter, I don't see a company. Instead, I see a social movement. I see people doing things for people.
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Living a 24-hour news life has come at a personal cost. I still wake in middle of the night to check the stream to see if something is breaking, worrying whether I missed some news.
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In the touch-based mobile device era, folks need to think of ways to have a single technology stack married to the ability to create unique experiences for different devices.
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Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.
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Just as two people can have similar personalities, two companies can have a remarkably similar approach to business.
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The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.
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My definition of media? 'Anything which owns attention.' This could be a game or, perhaps, a platform. Ironically, the media tends to associate media with publishing - digital or otherwise - which, in turn, is too narrow a way to consider not only the media but also the reality of the competitive landscape and media-focused innovation.
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The possibilities that come with thinking about the camera as a portal into the realm of information and services are attractive not only to Snap but also to every other big player in the tech world. Facebook, for instance, has slowly been enhancing the visual capabilities of its Messenger.
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The lens through which I view the media world is pretty simple: If you are in the business of sucking up attention, then you are in the media business.
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Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices.
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There's only one way to succeed: Show up, work hard, and do everything right. Regardless of who you might be or what kind of job you may have.
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Why don't we face up to the fact that many of us in Silicon Valley are living lives that involve telling ourselves a lot of lies.
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Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes.
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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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Snapchat works because using a selfie is way easier than texting or tweeting. Stories should adapt to the medium and do so without cheapening the story.
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For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don't put one down, I can't put the next one down.
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Having followed the wireless industry long enough, I can tell you that building and supporting an application for different platforms is as tough as climbing a straight wall of rock.
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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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Facebook needs to maintain its vise-like grip on our attention to become a conduit of not only advertising but also commerce, so that it can take a cut of everything.
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Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
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Whether it is through stock-market trading or the sale of hotel rooms, the Internet has a way of bringing deflationary forces to all businesses that were hitherto inefficient and involved many middlemen.
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The early entrants into the world of A.R., as with its cousin virtual reality, were disappointing: the phones were too weak, the networks were too slow, and the applications were too nerdy. But now the technological pieces are in place, and a whole generation - much of which is on Snapchat - has come to consider the camera almost a third arm.