Mossberg wasn't a "techie" in the sense of delighting in technology for the sake of itself, and so he wasn't that attractive to those of us that are. Rather he

Mossberg wasn't a "techie" in the sense of delighting in technology for the sake of itself, and so he wasn't that attractive to those of us that are. Rather he was a writer who appealed to people skeptical of technology and who wanted to know if a particular device would really be useful to somebody without a technical background for actual uses.