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Don't take that bait.

"Dvorak: Apple iPhone will be duplicated by others within a couple of quarters"

Just a desperate troll for web site hit counts, please "think before you click and reward the poor sap"

Vent your rage in the posts below, obviously something has got you fuming so this is a good excuse.

My boss totally sucks.

I will make a copy of his remarks, and remember to look back on them in six months

I nominate this cretin for Troll of the Century.

I hope Dvorak dies in pain with a brain tumor.

Dork trool alert!!!

Actually, the iPhone has already been copied.

Yea, yea I know, "troll" but it is true. Some companies have already done it, although it's no iPhone, just looks like one.

Where's the link? Why should I give you a link?

You can't handle the link!

Calling Dvorak a cretin is an insult to cretins.

Dvorak, what a fool!

Me is riter 2. May bee I can get job lyke John????
Our they hireing at PC Mag rite now?

Dvorak is a victim like any other PC writer or reviewer - finding there's not much to write about in the PC world. Why? Lack of innovation and excitement. He might not have a job soon...

What do you do? Harp and rip on a company that IS innovative and exciting. Dvorak will say anything to keep his job. Mr. D you are JUST A WRITER with an opinion, and it's wearing thin because you write stupid things!

Such negativism has its own just desserts.

"Eat up, John."

I wonder if Steve was mean to Dvorak once, a long time ago. Why else would he be so irrational about anything Apple? Maybe Steve asked him if he had ever lost his virginity.

Dvorak is a bomb thrower. He is anti anything new and anti anything tech.

Why people still listen to him is amazing to me.

I use to think he was funny. Now he is just old. His stick is stale.

Don't click the link. That's what Dvorak writes for, he cares not whether what he writes is accurate or reasonable. He just wants the hits.

Dvorak must have felt his hold on the stupidity crown was being challanged today by Doug McIntyre. He just had to regain the title.

As Forest Gump put it, "Stupid is as stupid does."

Dovorak is your head up your ass, how long has the iPod been out, has anyone duplicated it. NO and that will be the same way with the iPhone.

Obviously they'll try and duplicate the iPhone. Just like they tried to duplicate the iPod; just like they tried to duplicate OS X. Sheesh.

"I hope Dvorak dies in pain with a brain tumor."

i doubt his brain is big enough to attract anything that substantial

"But the legions of Apple mavens that will buy anything bearing the company's logo demand more and more coverage.""

He's said some stupid things before, but this has got to be the pinnacle of stupidity. I guess he feels it's his duty to save us all from ourselves.

Its my money John you douchebag, if i want to wipe my ass with it then set it on fire that's my business.

Dvorak should eat a brown Zune, then flush him self.

Must have a rent payment due at the apartment complex.

Dvorak is Ballmer's long lost twin. Neither have friends, just a lot of voices in their expanding heads.

Oh, wait till Microcrap releases something with a touch screen. Dvoass will be saying it is the greatest thing ever!

When an idiot falls in the forest, does anyone care?

There's one thing that copies can't copy and that's OSX. So the copies will not work nearly as well and you'll get what you paid for with the copies, GARBAGE!!!

MDN, you really write like a Taliban. Are you sure you aren't one?

Obviously another 'bait' article.

How can I be sure? Simple: Dvorak doesn't have any friends.

Throw Dvorak in the trash.

A better example of an Asshat has yet to be found.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=asshat

Hey John,

Probably not.

Dvorak is drunk again, and typing.

Thanks, MDN, for putting Dvorak on this site so I never have to click on his full articles. What a troll.

I love his line, "The company has bought into the groupthink premise that people will want to surf the Web endlessly on a small device."

I currently own a Treo 600, and let me tell you, I frakking LOVE to surf the Internet endlessly when I'm away from my computer. If I've got to wait somewhere for a few minutes -- a doctor's office, at a restaurant, during a traffic jam -- I check the latest headlines on news sites, read MDN, Salon, etc. My only complaint is that the Treo can barely manage to view a tenth of the websites out there. That's why the minute I heard about the iPhone I cancelled my order for the Treo 750 (which was already on order), and have waited patiently for six months to see if the hype is even close to the reality.

I'd buy the iPhone for real web access even if it had no other features beyond a basic phone. Anyone who's tried to surf the web with a browser that can't read frames, can't handle Flash, or can't manage to display a page correctly with more than simple text will cheer in relief...

I may not be there on June 29. I'm not that much of an early adopter. But I'll be there by Christmas.

MDN, you are an idiot for even posting stuff from this guy... STOP already... I am sick of him and the other clowns... Seriously, you are just helping him by posting his garbage here...

So freaking stop already.... PLEASE! This is stupid!

Am I right in reading the stock ticker above. The Dow Jones is taking a beating, but AAPL is STILL going up?

Hey ... is that Dvorak in This video ?? ...
The lead singer, ...or maybe holding a sign ... or the guy at the end ?

Why not take the high road and just ignore this freak?

"The company has bought into the groupthink premise that people will want to surf the Web endlessly on a small device."

WTF? First, why is that a "groupthink premise"? Second, what is the evidence that Apple has assumed this?

The web function is obviously not as good as a laptop or desktop, but there are plenty of functions that can be useful when away from either of those devices: google maps, movie tickets, restaurant reviews, etc. For those of use that are frighteningly dependent on the web for that kind of information, mobile web browsing is a great utility.

The screen on the iPhone is rather small, and so is the iPod's for that matter, those whose vision is impaired. People who don't want a 12" or 13" laptop because they think they need a larger screen, 15" or even 17", for example. So the first manufacturer who puts an iPhone screen enlarger on the market will clean up...or the iPhone will create an enlarged market for magnifying glasses.
Especially rectangular ones. Apple will, in a next generation, bring out a large (and heavier) model with a larger screen; the main criterion will be that the screen must not be as large as their smallest laptop screen. In the next iteration, the screen will be hinged, just like a book, and finally will be two-sided and hinged. Then the magnifying glass market will collapse, by which time the high end smart fone market will do, faute de mieux chez Nok, MOT, and RIM.

MS has been trying for around 20 years to duplicate the Mac OS and has yet to do so. So, we should assume that the iPhone will be duplicated in a couple of months? Logic would dictate that it will be imitated (like windows vs. the mac) but it will never be an elegant copy.

Ok someone should write a "Dvorak is Retarded" article and post it on Forbes around Noon Eastern time or something. I think that would make Apple's stock go up. Then send it as a press release throughout the internet. Then at the end if the day an hour before the market closes, RESEND it as another press release by Forbes. Cuz that's exactly what Marketwatch did, though the affect was negative both times on Apple's stock. I guess two words from Dvorak is what it takes to "almost" quench 1 word from Cramer.

There's already a pretty close fake out in the wild. The HTC Touch. Some crappy WM app that sits atop WM6. You’d be surprised how quickly the anti-Apple crowd has latched onto this new phone. They tried to back the LG Prada, but it flopped, so now they’re trying to back this new HTC as the “iPhone killer”.

Hopefully Steve will send the lawyers across the pond to HTC headquarters and save consumers from this dismal hardware design with a horrid UI. Not to mention a terrible OS behind it as well.

"I was reluctant to revisit this subject"

He should have followed his gut instinct. Instead he has written a very shoddy article - the obvious dishonesty about his friend and the plagiarisation of the NY Times article show a journalist with no ethics - we already knew he had no talent.

Can't they do better than this at whatever tawdry publication he writes for?

Along the lines of what several posters have already noted, Dvorak must be the highest paid troll in the computer industry.

Given iPhone is OS X, Dvorak simply doesn't know what he's talking about with respect to the idea of iPhone clones.

If Dvork thought he was knocking the iPhone he actually gave it even more legs.

When he said that his mysterious friend at the Apple store overheard a customer not knowing it was a cellphone: Guess what if that customer was willing to buy it full price for it's iPod like qualities and new interface - and I'm sure there are customer out there like his example- Then the iPhone is going to sell for those who want to trade up their iPod, switch to an iPod or just get the latest iPod.

Apple will have two customer sources - for iPods and cellphones.

And, yes Dvork is right other companies will try to imitate the iPhone - it will be those who buy a Ford because it looks like a BMW.

Unfortunately, there will be a lot of consumers who will buy some look-a-like that doesn't function even half a well.
I can hear them now - look I just brought an iPhone knock0off for half the price, but when asked how does it function: oh, I'm sure its the same - NOT!
It will probably have a M$ version that tries to duplicate OSX like everything else they make, will over heat, have a 10 minute battery life and crashes during calls.

My 2 cents.

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"Hello, Dvorak?"

Yes?

"John C. Dvorak?"

Yes, that's me.

"You're a jerk. A real knee-biter."

This guy is a total biter.

Fer reals. I mean, this has to be a joke, right?

So it goes from Apple's big mistake (pull the plug) -to- it's so good, it will be copied in a few quarters by the competition. Even if possible, by that time, Apple will have sold 20 million iPhones.

But it is not possible for the following reasons:

* Those 200 patents that Apple will enforce rigorously.
* No other copied iPhone product is also an iPod.
* No other copied iPhone product will have Mac OS X (or any OS of equal capability).
* Everyone else but Apple competes based on price. They will never match Apple's design or quality.

C1 - isn't Dvorak an ankle biter, I though Thurrott was the knee biter?

I'm so confused