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Dvorak is dorak.

PURE JACKASS.

please MDN stop posting his crap here. I dont need to know what he is writing, and I dont need to provide him income via web hits.

I don't EVER check his site. But many here do to read what you start. I also believe he is Zune Tang.


Seriously, just stop posting his web site here.

The simple reason for this idiocy is that John C. Dvorak baits MDN into posting traffic generating links to his tripe.

Ballmer's reaction to the iPhone was just 100% pure comedy. I'm gonna love the bad photocopy of multi-touch that next version of WinCE ships with. Dvorak just doesn't want to jeopardize his spot on Ballmer's corporate jet.

Now how many songs did iTunes sell last quarter? Is the downward trend in full effect?

I feel a need to say this again.

MDN, I hate seeing his name in your headlines. It wastes our time. Please stop. The MacNation needs him to disappear. He offers no substance, He offers no intelligent thought. He is purely phishing for web hits. And YOU, MDN, are an enabler.

Correction MDN: Apple's iPhone uses OS X, not Mac OS X.

In unrelated news, how do people like this actually get jobs? It is completely without logic. This man is so incredibly wrong on so many levels it's amazing he realizes how to stand.

I've always suspected that Jobs ran into some crazy guru who taught him this reality distortion field trick. Seriously, it's the only explanation when you start to think about it.

And I've always suspected that Dvorak is the product of sexual relationships between close relatives. Seriously, it's the only explanation when you start to think about it.

first post.

MDN, don't post a link to his site or better still, copy the article, and paste it summer so we Dvorark won't get any hits even if we want to read his article.

Think of it as a rally cry.

Actually, I just read this and was going to forward to MDN - damnit!!!

Actually, I found the artlicle absolutely hilarious. Given his history in baiting Mac users, his piece is obviously satirical - I sense a bit of jealousy there. I also viewed the Ballmer interview, and the one thing that stciks out more than anything else, is that these people truly have no clue as to how Apple does it. Yes, Apple innovates a lot things, but they also take existing technologies, logic and workflow and make them intuitive. This is the key point. Right now, the industry - computers and electronics - is dominated by a culture of trying to cram the coolest features into a gizmo and selling it. What nobody else seems to do except Apple is to figure out how to make technology intuitive and actually usable. I remember some UI design advice from a few years back - the more option and choices you provide someone, the less usable your design becomes. To be more intuitive, you actually have to limit choice - without limiting choice.

Microsoft will never get that.

Why do you guys here at MDN even cover this guy at all? Isn't that all he wants, attention? If we all simply ignore him maybe he will either go away or back off a little... You don't kill a weed from lack of light by uncovering it all the time to take a quick look.

Lets just wait to see how it sells!

These guys just don't understand Apple, thankfully we do and a lot more are.

21,000,000 iPods sold this quarter huh... Gee, when those users go buy a phone and they see Apple there, do you think they'll take a look at the iPhone?

Game over.

I'm with fatal on this, just ignore the dipshit

Folks,

You don't ignore this stuff, you expose it.

MDN does the best job of this out of all the Apple-related sites.

If you let the garbage go unchallenged, you risk that people may think you agree with it.

"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a mouse. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. - John Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, February 1984."

Having said that, how can even Ballmer take that clown seriously?

iPhone mantra: I don't need it buy I'll but it!

Try that again.

iPhone mantra: I don't need it but I'll buy it!

and a more definitive opinion on Dvorak....

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/357.html

Apple's "trend" setters: the Apple II, the original Mac, the original PowerBook, the translucent iMac, the iPod, and (now) iPhone. Even unsuccess products like Newton set the trend of others to follow.

The iPhone is just the next example. There will be customers who prefer to have physical buttons to push. But as the ultra-portable (wearable) computer advances, the obvious "right" design is to maximize screen size and maximize interface flexibility. That's the iPhone, the first of many such devices from Apple.

All the people who downplay iPhone are the ones who look to the past to predict what will be successful. Apple tries to anticipate what will be successful in the future.

Dvorak… one of the greatest standup comedians of our time. Glad to see MDN has a Funnies section.

He talks out of both sides of his mouth and still says nothing meaningful.

Dvorak is an ass. Just goes to show, anyTHING can be a tech "reporter".

I agree with the calls not to post Dvorak's (AKA: D_OR_K) articles here on MDN as it only serves to support his tripe by garnering more hits.

Jerk off!

MW: Response: He's not getting a hit from me.

Ummm...my undistorted reality shows $7B in revenue and $1B in profit last quarter for Apple, not to mention 21M iPods sold.

....how many Zunes during that period? Who's living in a distorted reality again? :D

No click-thru for me.

Can I predict the future?

"The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a [mouse] finger. There is no evidence that people want to use these things." - John Dvorak, San Francisco [Examiner] Chronicle, February [1984] 2007?

(The SF Examiner doesn't exist anymore. It'll have to be The Chronicle, better known to locals as "The Comical".)

I use a Siemens X66. I got it for the full keypad. Seriously, I really wanted a keypad for my texting.

I never use the keypad. Ever, I hate it. It's terrible. My favorite uses of the phone are when the buttons on the screen are big enough that I don't use my stylus. I love it when I can use it as a touchpad. So much so, that I will probably not buy the iPhone anytime soon. I love my X66 when I can use the screen as a touchpad.

If I hadn't chosen yet, already, I cannot possibly imagine NOT getting the iPhone.

Mouse, GUI (Mac), Laser Printer, DTP, Quicktime, Firewire, OS X, iPod, iPhone... certainly wacky inventions that no one would ever want. Steve Jobs & Co. should try inventing something truly useful...like re-inventing the fucking keyboard!

Dvorak is a baboon

What an idiot. And people pay him to write that nonsense...

MacDailyNews Take:
..... "The simple reason for this idiocy is that John C. Dvorak baits Apple product users in an attempt to generate traffic to his tripe:"

Too true.

With all due respect MDN - are you the kettle or the pot? regarding traffic ; )

I'll be a parrot and echo SKY LARK..

Please stop posting his dribble, I can't take his stupid comments any more.

just hit me. MDN keep posting this cos it keeps the traffic up too.

Dribble, meet drivel. Drivel, dribble.

Umm, John? If I want to hear from an asshole, I'll fart.

I say post it-I want to know what the idiot says. But send a link to google and tell people to search for it instead.
BTW, I wonder about all these people who are crying about the lack of a physical keyboard ever considered the fact that it has bluetooth, so theoretically you could hook it up to a normal bluetooth keyboard. But for travel purposes, I bet someone will create a teeny tiny keyboard that could be used with it - and may even snap to it and act as a type of case as well. But seriously why bother?

dvorak is a f#&#xke;n retard, so stop posting retarded stuff MDN.

Dvorak = Master Baiter

Its both a joke and completely true at the same time.

If iPhone copied PocketPC, then PocketPC copied Palm, and Palm copied Newton. What goes around comes around ...

So, if Dvorak spews nonsense to generate traffic, where does that put MDN by repeating his idiocy?

MDN: "believe". Yes, I "believe" MDN is trying to increase its add revenue by regurgitating Dvorak's shit!

Is there a way I can read it without his site getting a hit? I need a good chuckle. I wonder if any of those soft roll up keyboards come with bluetooth?

"Dvorak baits Apple product users in an attempt to generate traffic to his tripe"

It's not going to work with me, John. I'll not go anywhere near your site. The only Dvorak who interests me is Antonin.

It's true. My ass smells like Ballmer's breath.

If he's baiting, then quit linking to his freaking articles! Ignore the idiot, and he will go away.

Dvorak 'studies' all these new products that come out, make the worst predictions and gets paid for his 'effort'. I'm starting to wonder if those magazines are actually paying him to inject humour into their publications.

Duhborat.

Nah, that would be giving him too much credit.

Of course Apple copied. They didn't invent the telephone. They also didn't invent the MP3 player, but that didn't stop them from killing all that came before or followed.

I won't click on the full story link to that ass-jockey's web site BTW. Thanks MDN for paraphrasing and saving us time.

lets give dvorak the silence he deserves

MDN, in this case, why not leave the "Full article here" link out? Why help this guy at all? You're giving him hits and increasing his search engine popularity, and if there's anyone out there who doesn't deserve these little gifts, it is him. Just say the full article can be found at marketwatch.com, for those who are morbidly interested.

Dvorak:

"I'm Batman."

I think you guys need to read The Fountainhead.
Dvorak praises through faint damnation.

-c

MW: 'systems' (that cannot work often do)