“The one curious aspect of [Microsoft’s Windows] Vista, which may also spell its doom and mark the end of the road for the most popular OS in the history of the world, is its newest Mac-like qualities. This phenomenon I find quite fascinating,” John C. Dvorak foments for PC Magazine.
Dvorak foments, “From what I can tell, the Mac community likes Vista more than the PC community. Apparently, in its quest to emulate what Apple does on the Mac—as if it’s the holy grail of computers—Microsoft has given up on what makes a PC unique. (And I don’t mean the blue screen of death.) There is something about Vista that has crossed over to the right brain—the realm of the Mac.”
“When it comes to the Apple-versus-PC battle, one oft-neglected discussion is that the majority of people do not like Macs. Get over it, it’s true. Hence, Apple’s market share is low. There is no other explanation, although price has always been the rationale. Now it looks as if there is more to it than price. I, personally, do not like the Mac—snappy response aside—of the way it feels when saving files. I know this is silly, but I’ve never felt comfortable with it. It was mushy in some weird way that always gave me the creeps. I always felt that if something weird happened on a Mac I would never be able to recover a file. I’ve never felt that way with a PC. I figured that with a PC, I could take the hard disk out and easily put it into another machine and then go exploring the drive without worry,” Dvorak foments.
Dvorak foments, “This is a minor thing to people who would be fearful of removing a hard disk, and that, to me, would be a typical art director at an ad agency who used a Mac. He’s buying the machine because it looks good and he/she likes the way it feels.”
Dvorak foments, “And there is the much-discussed odd nature of the fringe Mac users who are cultlike and often psycho in their behavior: They see the machine as an extension of themselves and defend it from criticism with an unpleasant vehemence. They represent the worst kind of irrational right-brainers. Who needs to associate with people like that?”
Full mess, Think Before You Click™, here.
Questions abound:
• Which “Mac community,” exactly, likes Windows Vista more than “the PC community?”
• If the Mac isn’t “the holy grail of computers,” what is, John? Windows XP? Some obscure Linux distro? Kaypro, you old fool?
• Perhaps the majority of people do not like Macs because they have no idea what a Mac is or what they’re missing? Or because they believe garbage from the likes of Dvorak?
• Why do those who use both Mac and Windows overwhelmingly choose Macs? Get over it, it’s true.
• Who would’ve guessed that John C. Dvorak, personally, does not like the Mac? You know, because it’s “mushy in some weird way.”
• You can’t take a hard disk out of a Mac Pro, easily put it into another Mac Pro, and then go exploring the drive without worry? Of course you can – and easier than with any Windows PC, too.
• Why does Dvorak pretend that people buy Macs because they look good? The answer is in the video included below.
• The only one who’s “psycho in their behavior” is the man technology long ago passed by: John C. Dvorak. Why else would he not want to “associate with people like that” while continuing to bait them for decades with his badly written slop?
• Does PC Magazine really need to stoop so low for hits as to employ an empty-headed blowhard who has admitted on tape (see below) to baiting Mac users in a desperate quest for hits?
• Besides just sounding old, John’s really looking old. What legacy will John C. Dvorak leave besides a closetful of bad shirts, the reputation of a weasel, and reams upon reams of worthless sniping?
John Dvorak admits to baiting Mac users in desperate attempts to generate traffic for his junk:
Related articles:
Dvorak on Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Ballmer, Transcendental Meditation, and more – January 17, 2007
Dvorak on Apple iPhone: ‘I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it’ – January 13, 2007
Apple sells 450,000 of Dvorak’s ‘nutty’ Nike+iPod Sport Kits in under three months – September 13, 2006
Dvorak tries damage control – June 20, 2006
Video: Dvorak admits to baiting Apple Mac users for hits – June 10, 2006
Dvorak thinks iPod+Nike Sport Kit is ‘nutty’ – May 24, 2006
God, Dvorak is such a dbag. He says the stupidest shit. He just loves to piss us Mac users off!
I really hate this guy. I wouldn’t mind if he fell out of a box and hit his head on some moldy bread.
This guy is the Jimmy “The Greek” of computer commentators. We are just waiting for him to make the first off-color comment so he gets canned, once and for all.
Maybe we can bait him and ask him why certain races aren’t running M$…..
Someone needs to stop pulling his string. Please just leave him in the dark toy closet slumped over where he belongs.
Someone please punch this jackass in the mouth.
Dvorak writes “… I, personally, do not like the Mac…”
Fortunately, all Apple has to do at this point is simply wait for all these simple-minded old fogeys to die off (and they will sooner or later). For the most part, Apple is courting the next generation of computer users — except for the gamers — which they really need to get busy on…
“…in other words, I’m a hack!”
MDN Magic word: “even”- as in: “even” the camera guy knows that Dvorak is a hack.
What a tosser.
The mag’s not much better — rather workmanlike for my taste.
John,
FSCK YOU.
Apple needs to get the gamers attention.
I agree. I play WoW on my Mac Pro. There is a market Apple needs to address. ..hey would that be a MAC ADDRESS?
Do the world a favor and, as MDN says, “Think Before You Click™.”
Don’t give this idiot any more hits. We’ll have him back managing a Wendy’s from midnight to 6 a.m. in no time (no offense Wendy’s employees. Ack! Actually, I like Wendy’s. What am I saying?!) Anway, don’t help keep this guy in business.
Let’s take a stand against stupidity, evil, greed, and lies. He craves money and attention. Give him neither.
“I can’t put my finger on it.” Uh, perhaps because there is no logical reason you feel that way. He’s hated Macs for so long that he doesn’t even remember why. Perhaps it was jealousy, or cost (in the old days). Maybe it was because it didn’t have an old fashioned command prompt mode (in the old days). Whatever it was, he can’t even remember and it’s probably no longer relevent. So, he comes up with crap to continue his hatred.
Along the same lines, I’m sure that PC Mag is probably saying “I think there was a reason we hired John D., but I can’t remember why.”
With Target Mode there’s no reason to take the drive out of the Mac in order to go exploring it with another Mac. There’s nothing like it in the Windows world. While working at a multimedia company years ago the clients were always stunned by the multi-monitor desktop — never mind the 3D work I was doing for them on the screen. “How did you do that?” (As the cursor smoothly glided from one screen to another.) “What key did you press?” Target Mode is like that now.
Why doesn’t God take him already? LOL
Why doesn’t he just go back to DOS? Much more his speed.
what do you expect from him? he is admitting the he has absolutely no creativity. even engineers are creative.
if dvorak started praising macs, i would think that something is wrong.
clearly, he is a consultant for MS.
The extent to which I
a) care what Dvorak has to say and
b) would make the effort to visit his site
is described below:
WOW. He has really lost it. Period. End of sentence.
Remove hard drive? Mac Pro. open side cover, push in drive, out it pops.
Feels weird?? Yep he is gone.
I have a friend that likes to “play” with the guts of their PC machine. It makes them “feel” good. Like they have some control.
They don’t. When she changed modems, all of her systems died. Printer would not work, etc. Tech support told her that she would have to replace most every piece of hardware.
She had made a copy of her software configuration before changing hardware. She put her old modem back in, rebooted her old software and everything worked again. She was happy. She had to buy another computer to get a faster modem cause her PC just “did not work” with her. 🙁
I just smile and let her tell me about all her new toys and adapters and software upgrades. I know that, in her own sweet weird way, she is having fun.
Doing that would drive me nuts. I just like to use my machine, not constantly fix it.
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Dovark, go play in your sand box with the other incurable geek-want-to-be’s and leave us alone. We enjoy superior hardware/software especially when it plays nice with each other.
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He says… “I figured that with a PC, I could take the hard disk out and easily put it into another machine and then go exploring the drive without worry,”
I have to ask….. UMMMMMMM, what the hell are you talking about????
He’s totally baiting. If you even fall for it… you’re the loser he thinks you are.
The more he rants on the less credible as a tech reporter he becames.
Stories like this are going to spell his own doom. When people stop caring what he has to say.
Please don’t give this moron any more credit…. quit posting his obvious crap!
MDN,
Your Think Before You Click™ is genius – I hope you guys continue to use this whenever you deem necessary.
We can all read it here and the idiots like Dvorak, Enderle, etc. get no traffic. It’s perfect!
Apple ruined its reputation as a computer maker in the 90s. It has and will continue to have a huge problem overcoming that image right now. When it was time to win over the computer market, Apple lost. Microsoft won. Now Apple faces the monumental task of trying to convince the majority of computer users that they it is worth switching . . . that this generation of Macs are far better than that previous generation of Macs they grew to hate. They are still more expensive, overall.
The iPod has helped redeem its image a bit. If Apple wants to win over more people, it needs to let Windows users use more of its software . . . why not Safari??
I believe Apple has started to branch out into other areas also to redeem its image. Has the Mac been gaining market share? Yes. Will it ever be able to take the lead against the other computer companies? Certainly. However, I seriously doubt if it will ever take the lead away from Windows.
Apple’s only chance is to make its OS able to be run on ANY PC. However, that would ruin their entire computer business. OS X is the main competitor to Windows, and Microsoft knows it will never be a serious competitor. It will take some other company to finally compete with Microsoft, because Apple will never be in a position to do it.
DON’T CLICK!!!! flamebait from D O R K !!!!