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Stories by Jason Snell

  • Review: Sony's waterproof Xperia Tablet Z is bathtub-compatible

    Times are tough for Sony. The once-venerated electronics manufacturer is struggling in the tablet, smartphone, and digital music-player markets, so I felt much trepidation when I opened the box of the Xperia Tablet Z, Sony's new 10-inch Android tablet. But I came away pleasantly surprised. This is an idiosyncratic device, to be sure, but it's got a whole lot going for it.

  • Analysis: Apple's events move on, and so does the company

    In the technology world, being complacent is deadly. Something that's groundbreaking, revolutionary, or classic is inevitably tired and creaky just a few years later. As Steve Jobs himself preached, staying relevant is always about moving forward. At Apple's 2013 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) we saw Apple itself take a revolutionary product that's by many standards still the best in the industry, and change it into something new.

  • The iPad as a comic-book reader

    Tablets, led by the iPad, have the potential to shake up the comic-book industry even more than ebook readers have begun to change the world of prose books.

  • Opinion: Indistinguishable from magic

    As an adolescent, I loved to read the science fiction magazine Analog. One of my favorite Analog stories was "Hindsight" by Harry Turtledove. (I still have my copy of this "special spoof issue," dated mid-December 1984, in my garage.)

  • iPhone 5 takes next step in smartphone evolution

    It's been a little more than five years since Apple released the original iPhone. During that time the world has changed. People now expect fast, reliable Internet connections and bright touchscreens on devices they can fit in their pockets.

  • iPhone: Five years in our pockets

    Five years ago, I was sitting in a tent up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, writing a review of one of the most technologically advanced products I'd ever seen in a remarkably non-technical location. My <a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/1058733/iphone_rev.html">review of the original iPhone</a> had collided with a long-planned, unmovable family vacation, and so there I was reviewing a phone in a place so remote there was no phone service.

  • Cook: Apple planning professional Mac for 2013

    Users who rely on Apple's Mac Pro system were disappointed when the raft of WWDC announcements didn't include Apple's tower Mac, but Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed in an email to an Apple customer that the company is working on "something really great" to address the professional market.

  • Cook: Apple will "double down" on Siri and secrecy

    Apple CEO, Tim Cook, kicked off the Wall Street Journal’s tenth annual D: All Things Digital conference, appearing at the same event that his predecessor, Steve Jobs, had headlined several times before. Answering questions from conference hosts Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Cook said his company is doubling down on Siri, played coy about Apple’s approach to the gaming and television markets, and spoke emotionally about Jobs’s death.

  • Review: Apple TV (3rd generation, early 2012)

    The new-model of Apple TV looks and acts exactly like the previous model. I've spent the last week with the new, 1080p-compatible version of the Apple TV, and I'm here to report that it's exactly like its predecessor in all but one way.