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CBS is no longer a real news source and therefore David is no longer a real journalist.
This is a pretty simplistic take. Yes, CBS has certainly backslid in many ways and makes watching some of their content almost impossible given their new direction. However, I’d say that David hasn’t really been reigned in or changed in any meaningful way from what I can see. His content seems to be just as good as before.
 
"Temu Paper book"??? It's a hardback book. "Apple pricing"??? It's only $46.50. Have you priced hardback books these days?

"Why isn't the price shown"??? There is a link you can click on to see the price.

Wow! Some of these comments...
Everyone in a bit of a cranky mood today it seems 😂
 
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Pogue and Jason Snell are the two names I can remember from way back in time when I was reading the Mac magazines (User and World). This will probably be an interesting read.
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I still have a lot of them. I feel old. 😁
 
Wozniak got robbed.
Robbed? Fifty years after the founding of Apple, Woz seems to be quite happy with the life he has led. He just made some choices very different from Jobs'. Similarly, Apple co-founder Ronald Wayne is certainly quite the eccentric, pretty much embodying the old "Think Different!" slogan, but he too seems largely to be respected in his own odd way. They're the spirit of Apple every bit as much as Jobs, and arguably more than Cook. Without Woz's brain and Wayne's organizational acumen that launched Apple, Steve Jobs would have had to find some other creative project to attach himself to in order to become the weird combination of irreplaceable spark-plug and disreputable parasite that he turned out to be, riding on others' coattails while dragging those coattails to heights they otherwise would not have reached.
 
Did he interview Scott Forstall? Anyway, I might pirate this one. After complete and utter dissapointment that Steve Jobs by W.I. was, and Insanely Simple – The Obsession that Drives Apple’s Success. I'm not buying this crap anymore. I still have "Becoming Steve Jobs" to read..
 
"Temu Paper book"??? It's a hardback book. "Apple pricing"??? It's only $46.50. Have you priced hardback books these days?

"Why isn't the price shown"??? There is a link you can click on to see the price.

Wow! Some of these comments...
Price already dropped to $39.20
 
Samsung needs to come out with their book too.

And then both companies should both come out with a book about the other company.
 
They really could have done a better job on that cover art, it has strong "self published" vibes. But it's nice to see David Pogue out here doing his thing.
 
I will purchase the book. However, I agree with a lot of comments that the cover doesn't work. Maybe the button really presses.
 
Should be an interesting read. Might get one copy in the coming days. Also looking forward to seeing how Apple will celebrate its 50th anniversary.
 
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You probably say stuff like lamestream media

The relevancy here is that David is a journalist for CBS and CBS helped secure interviews for his book.

So any news agency that wants to alter the news is trash IMO.

David might be a great guy but if he continues sleeping in the bed with the devil, I lose respect for him.
 
Read the first few pages. Not overly impressed… Apparently mini computers were the size of microwave ovens, and Woz’s Apple 1 prototype had 256k of RAM. Pretty impressive for a 6502 machine…
 
I'm gonna get this, but I've not quite decided between the Hardcover and the Kindle version...

Almost killed myself reading the hardcover omnibus version of the 3 Body Problem in bed a while ago, and have - more or less - exclusively read off the Kindle since... 😉
I'm a kindle guy but am glad i bought the hardcover.

Nice white pages, and there's a ******** of color and pictures. You'd lose a lot by going to the kindle version, imo (unless you've got a color scribe or something).

I plan on reading it and returning it (the cover had some damage) but i just caught myself getting sucked into it; it's good.
 
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Yeah, this cover design is rather meh.

They really could have done a better job on that cover art, it has strong "self published" vibes. But it's nice to see David Pogue out here doing his thing.

I will purchase the book. However, I agree with a lot of comments that the cover doesn't work. Maybe the button really presses.

Somebody actually got paid to design that cover.

I bought the hardcover. Going to try to read it and send it back to Amazon within the return window.
David shared some context on his cover over on his Substack today:

https://pogueman.substack.com/p/why-my-simple-book-cover-wasnt-simple

As expected, a lot of it came down to lawyers…
 
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