Dvorak drones on about Apple’s demise. Yawn.
You know, in this world there are Mac bashers, and then there are reasonable folks. Guess which camp John Dvorak
falls into. This particular bit of tripe is even more
over the top than his usual.
I about bust a gut over this bit of expert analysis: “Jobs cannot be in the computer business, the movie business, and
the music business and make them all successful. You see the results. Market share for the Mac is crap.” Uh huh. Right.
Because computers, movies and music just have *absolutely nothing to do with each other.* No overlap there. Of course,
this depends on what century you’re writing in, and I think this guy’s not yet come out of his cave in this one. He
also clearly either hasn’t been reading any major media, or must think that
Forbes, Time and Billboard are all on crack.
Something *is* crap here, but it’s not Apple. It’s this guy’s shoddy journalism and neanderthal analysis of
markets.
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PXLated said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
Funny...Dvorak has trouble being successful in one, no wonder he doesn't understand. If he didn't bash Apple/Jobs on a regular basis he'd have no readers at all. :-)
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John Federico said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
This is standard fare for Dvorak. He likes to create controversy. It's good for his numbers...
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Kurt Vander Bogart said 9:34PM on 8-26-2005
Ironically, if you look close enough at the W3C numbers that Dvorak is refering to, the trend shows that the Mac is picking up market share.
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damien said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
This guy has been rehashing the same crap ever since they booted him out of MacUser.
He prdicted the iMac was going to fail. Blah blah blah. He is always off base completely.
He bashes Apple and Mac to feel relevant. If he writes about anything else, I'm sure he gets minimal reponse. Bash Aplle, in box flooded with response. It's his way of asking "is anyone reading this?"
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rev_matt_y said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
Actually, he makes some useful observations. Even among my very tech savvy coworkers (a bunch of Java developers) the Mac is viewed as overpriced and really only good for artsy types. I recently bought a 1.4Ghz iBook and bring it in to work. We use it for code reviews (in eclipse)since it's the only laptop around, and that's gone a long way towards changing their opinion.
Now they understand that Macs are not more expensive than *comparably spec'd* PCs, and that you can do everything on a Mac that you can on a Wintel systems (and usually more easily).
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Photo Tim said 3:06PM on 8-18-2005
Dvorak is a pathetic old troll.. It's as simple as that.
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Manuel Perez said 4:14PM on 6-16-2005
I stopped reading this guy's columns back in 1987 (or there abouts) when he wrote that the Mac Plus was going to fail because the keyboard was too small to put on your lap. He totally failed to see what the Mac was about then, and still misses the point. I am surprised he is still writing about Macs, after all they were dead 20 years ago according to him.
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