John Dvorak: Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone

No one who is sane takes this guy seriously.

Its almost like his articles belong in The Onion.

I can't wait to read how the iPod is a failure.
 
It's unbelievable how long Dvorak has managed to stick around.

Even back in the old BYTE magazine days, he was a unknowledgeable dork who wrote mostly so companies would send him free software and hardware... and those who didn't, he bashed.

But he's smart about one thing: all he has to do is be controversial, and he'll always be in the limelight.
 
In fairness, I suppose Dvorak's iPhone comments are tame compared to these pearls of forward-thinking wisdom:


1998 Folks, the Mac platform is through - totally. (John Dvorak)

1986 UNIX is dead, but no one bothered to claim the body. (John Dvorak)

1984 The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a mouse. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. (John Dvorak)

1981 640K ought to be enough for anybody. (Bill Gates)
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1968 What the hell is [a microprocessor] good for? (Robert Lloyd of IBM's Advanced Computing Systems Division)

1959 Before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail. (Arthur Summerfield, US Postmaster General)

1943 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.(?Thomas Watson of IBM)


source: http://www.sysprog.net/quothist.html
 
ViveLeLivre said:
1959 Before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail. (Arthur Summerfield, US Postmaster General)
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Haha. I remember rocket mail on the cover of Popular Science long ago. ( Nothing like having a large deadly bullet landing on your kids' heads in the front lawn! )

As luck would have it, I don't live far from here:

"The first successful delivery of mail by a rocket in the United States was made on 23 February 1936, when two rockets that were launched from the New Jersey shore of Greenwood Lake landed on the New York shore, some 300 metres away."

A large B&W picture of the rocket is on a local supermarket's wall.
 
First the MP3 player business was segmented and unfocused with numerous players making a lot of cheap junk and not doing much to market any of it.

Apple does what? Advertise. Gosh, what a concept
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I stopped reading there. The author is a tool who doesn't understand or refuses to understand simple concepts, products, product history, and product strategy, and their relationship to existing markets.



Mind you, I'm saying this and I'm not an Apple advocate. I tend to break out the verbal whip every time Apple even so slightly appears to start to slip.
 
Wow, flashback. Well, I got hired on full time permanent with that job. They were supposed to get me a BlackBerry, but no one wanted to pay for it. So they suggested I get my own. Right after the price drop, I got one of the old 4GB models on sale. Got some discounts too. Just about perfect thanks to iToner.

And Dvorak is still a yellow journalist, and he knows it.
 
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