Quotes from Om Malik

I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.

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

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

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.

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

For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.

The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.

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.

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.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

In cities like New York, it is common to find taxicabs with wireless-enabled card readers.

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.

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.

I think the emotional appeal of a platform is what works. I think the old-media entities still have not figured out that part of the game plan.

Our ubiquitous mobile access has made time and location important data points in how businesses can now be built and managed.

Fog is my weakness, and every time there is low fog, I am out and about with my camera.

When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps - native apps and HTML5 web-based apps.

It is becoming harder for us to stay on top of the onslaught - e-mails, messages, appointments, alerts. Augmented intelligence offers the possibility of winnowing an increasing number of inputs and options in a way that humans can't manage without a helping hand.

We live in crazy times - that is true - and things have gotten crazier, but it still doesn't feel like the turn of the century.

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.

Apps have become a preferred way of accessing information on mobile devices.

Sure, Google's and Apple's ecosystems look a little different, but they are meant to do pretty much the same thing. For the two companies, innovation on mobile essentially means catching up to the other's growing list of features.

Mindfulness is natural when you do not need to think about minor daily problems like making a living!

The lightbulb, the most humble and illuminating of all technologies, when combined with a network connection, transforms itself from being a bulb into a wake-up alarm, a mood alteration mechanism, and in some cases, a cupid's assistant.