“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?”
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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
This guy works for a magazine! They sure as hell don’t use Windows to put it together. EVERY print shop uses macs.
Such SAD life!! Writing bigotry for FOOD!!
He is the master of baiting
These PC guys are always on about having access to the internals. Mac’s don’t break down as much as PC’s do, so there’s no need to be concerned about pulling the damn thing apart.
When you buy a car you don’t think, Hmmmm I like this car, the gearbox is in a great postion for me to get at it when it blows up.
“• Why do those who use both Mac and Windows overwhelmingly choose Macs? Get over it, it’s true.”
Is there a study somewhere that supports this statement?
You can deny it all you want, but every item of clothing you wear, everything you eat, every car you drive, every band you love, is an extension of yourself.
“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.”
What in the fsck is this douche talking about? “Felt”? Oh, well I feel that saving files in Windows actually removes my soul* and sells it to a hobo.
*if I had one
Fsck Dvorak. I am an art director and freelancer and I did not buy a Mac just because it “looks good”. I am a hard-working professional and I deserve to be respected as such, and that kind of comment is an insult to the entire design industry. Perhaps John thinks being a worthless hack writer is the pinnacle of his career, but to the rest of the world he and his thoughtless, immature, devoid of any critical thought comments can jump from the nearest cliff. He produces nothing of value and is worthless in the scheme of things.
My, what a whinger, it’s quite simple, if you don’t like it then don’t use it, I really don’t give a f**k!
He wants hits on his blog dvorak-blog so don’t go to his site! We all know that Vista isn’t Mac like in any way, shape, or form.
“If Apple wants to win over more people, it needs to let Windows users use more of its software . . . why not Safari??”
– Eh, or maybe just stick with iTunes and maybe porting iPhoto to Windows. After all, there are many Mac users that don’t even use Safari.
He’s hilarious. He’s like a techie Andy Kaufman.
MDN Word: southern, as in those Kaufman baited in his wrestling persona.
Someone put this moron out of his misery…please.
Dork gets it. Mac fanboys don’t
Zune Zune Zune…. Ya Zune Zune Zune…
wahie a minute, was that from Mazda? oopz!
Soon Tank
cousar,
He is nowhere near as brilliant as Andy Kaufman. Kaufman was subversive and groundgreaking. This guy is just a troll.
IMHO.
John C. Dvorak is a shining example of one who is victim of the “Stockholm syndrome” when it comes to using a PC. Saying that the way the Mac saves files “gives him the creeps” is a clear indication.
I have to admit that Windows gives ME the creeps though. Clicking on “START” to shut down a computer and not ever knowing if opening up an attachment in an e-mail could irreversably hijack or destroy the OS. Now THAT’S creepy.
Did I just type “groundgreaking?”
Lol. Sorry.
does anyone else apart from the mac community read any of this drivel?
He does sound a bit like Rush Limbaugh talking about Hillary Clinton, doesn’t he? Wonder if he also uses Viagra for underage sex tours in the Dominican Republic.
spam this half witt’s inbox and sign him up to every pron junk mailing list know to mankind!!!!!!!!!!!!!!…. any hackers out there? show this twit why his dull box is so unsqushable…
puleeese! someone? anyone?
He’s still upset that his alternative keyboard layout never caught on with the masses.
The ONLY reason PC’s have the market share they do is that early on IBM went after the business market, and Apple made the mistake of sticking with the educational market.
Once Apple can break into the business market in a big way, you’ll see a tsunami in home purchases.
I’m sold on Apple and I used to be a Windows-based developer making my living in the PC world. MSFT has a rich history of bug-riddled cr@p that doesn’t live up to their own hype.
Look at Vista – where’s the WinFS that was promised?
It’s getting near the end of the month and his rent is due. Flame bait article only. The amazing thing to me is that with his confession on video about how and why he does this, his advertisers still pay him for the hits he gets.
Dvorak has spoken. I.E. I don’t care.
there’s something particularly delightful about the logic of his argument: i don’t like the way Macs save files because if my computer crashes and i have to find the file again i am not sure i can find it.
Leaving aside the obvious answer (the file is in your “documents” folder inside your “home” folder – sorry if that was confusing for you), any rational person would focus his efforts on choosing a well built computer whose OS is not prone to crashing the system rather than a file saving scheme which “feels” less “mushy.”
This is akin to insisting that your STD-riddled-prostitute use the condom with fewer holes in it. Hey Dvorak – you are focusing your attention on the wrong thing.
/not the greatest analogy
//STD jokes are always funny