5 posts and columns on Pioneer

Apple iPhone Apps: Fast-Growing but Not Quite Fast Enough for the ADD Set

in News on August 11, 2008 at 3:47 pm PT

Someone get a dose of Ritalin stat to the noisy but deeply misguided critics who took news of a huge number of downloads of apps for the Apple iPhone and immediately concluded it was just not good enough. Thus, as reported today in The Wall Street Journal, 60 million downloads in 30 days–mostly for free apps, but with about $30 million in revenue, and a runway of three million more new iPhones out there too–is a chance to talk about how it all is just so unexciting and how the apps market is officially saturated? Am I missing something here? One would assume that were these pundits pioneers, they would get to Ohio and declare that going farther west held very little promise, thank you very much!

Choosing a High-Definition TV

in Mossberg’s Mailbox on November 9, 2006 at 11:59 pm PT

Walt Mossberg’s column about high-definition TVs generated intense reader interest, so this is an all-HDTV edition of Mossberg’s Mailbox.

Once You Experience Wide-Screen HDTVs, Hassles Seem Small

in Personal Technology on November 2, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

Walt Mossberg lives for several weeks with a big, beautiful HDTV and finds that it’s a joy to watch. But there are some hitches.

A Portable Player For Both Satellite Radio, MP3s

in The Mossberg Solution on May 17, 2006 at 12:01 am PT

For people who just like music, the Inno’s radio and recording features don’t seem like reason enough to buy it over an iPod.
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