As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress. John C. Dvorak More Quotes by John C. Dvorak More Quotes From John C. Dvorak The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things. John C. Dvorak use want people In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. John C. Dvorak technology fun science Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone... What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it's smart it will call the iPhone a 'reference design' and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures... Otherwise I'd advise people to cover their eyes. You are not going to like what you'll see. John C. Dvorak apples smart eye When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing? John C. Dvorak doing-nothing resources process Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it. John C. Dvorak good-taste taste missing The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch. John C. Dvorak data succeed technology The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights. John C. Dvorak bills politics rights People are only concerned about the next party, meeting up for casual sex, finding a job as a Web page designer, or getting a new apartment. John C. Dvorak party jobs sex Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software. John C. Dvorak flocks machines people If time means nothing to you, then surf the Web. John C. Dvorak surf ifs mean The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out. John C. Dvorak wall college nuts IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all this gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor approaches the pot, he falls into the pit John C. Dvorak competition giving fall If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied. John C. Dvorak crush apples competition Nobody can deny that Apple is fashionable, and most iPhone users buy the newest so they can be fashionable. To do this right, Apple needs a new phone every quarter. John C. Dvorak apples iphone phones The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it... With the iPad, Apple may have irked it's somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody. John C. Dvorak ipads apples may Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores... [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful. John C. Dvorak holiday cities successful I hate to use that term [iPad Killer] since the iPad is probably dead anyway. John C. Dvorak ipads hate use The tablet market has only succeeded as a niche market over the years and it was hoped Apple would dream up some new paradigm to change all that. From what I've seen and heard, this won't be it. John C. Dvorak apples dream years The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration. John C. Dvorak deterioration matter busy Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft out of the picture. Kind of like what Microsoft allegedly does to people who write applications for Windows. John C. Dvorak cutting writing people
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