John C. Dvorak Quotes

• The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things.

  John C. Dvorak

  People, Use, Want

  Review of the Macintosh, The San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984.

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• 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.

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  Fun, Science, Technology

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• 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.

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  Smart, Eye, Apples

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• 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?

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  Doing Nothing, Process, Resources

  "XP Decay". PC Magazine, September 29, 2003.

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• Intelligence is like good taste. If you don't have it, you don't miss it.

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  Missing, Taste, Good Taste

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Sex, Party

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• 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.

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  Technology, Data, Succeed

  "The Looming Cable Modem Fiasco". PC Magazine, September 12, 1995.

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• If time means nothing to you, then surf the Web.

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  Mean, Surf, Ifs

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• I hate to use that term [iPad Killer] since the iPad is probably dead anyway.

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  Hate, Ipads, Use

  "No Agenda" podcast, No. 177, February 2010.

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• 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.

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  Iphone, Ideas, Apples

  "Wrong? Dvorak blames his 'getting screwed over' by Apple" by Paul McNamara, www.networkworld.com. June 27, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Crush, Apples, Competition

  "Apple's Swan Song". www.pcmag.com. January 14, 2013.

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• Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.

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  People, Machines, Flocks

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• 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

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  Fall, Giving, Competition

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• 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.

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  Iphone, Phones, Apples

  "Giddyup, Apple!". www.pcmag.com. June 29, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Apples, Ipads, May

  "The iPad faces industry backlash". www.marketwatch.com. February 12, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Writing, Cutting, People

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• 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.

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  Dream, Years, Apples

  "Hello, giant iPod Touch". www.marketwatch.com. January 29, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Deterioration, Matter, Busy

  "The Wikification of Knowledge". www.pcmag.com. July 11, 2005.

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• The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

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  Rights, Politics, Bills

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• 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.

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  Wall, College, Nuts

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• 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.

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  Holiday, Successful, Cities

  "Microsoft Retail Stores Will Rival Apple Stores". www.pcmag.com. October 3, 2012.

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