“If you are a long-time Apple user then you have probably heard of the four pundits below. They have written reams of bad advice, poor comparisons, unclear analysis, insane predictions, and general crap. But if you are relatively new to the world of Apple then you might mistakenly assume that these guys actually know what they’re talking about. Rest assured, they don’t. This is a simple guide to the four biggest idiots out there writing about all things Apple. They all have different styles, but in the end you can’t really trust any of them. Here they are, in no particular order: the top four pundits you should always ignore,” James R. Stoup writes for Apple Matters.
• John C. Dvorak — Don’t mistake commentary for journalism
• Rob Enderle — Mr. “I-will-say-anything-for-a-quote”
• George Ou — He lost his mind during the wireless-MacBook-hack scandal and never recovered
• Paul Thurrott — Facts are sooooo optional
Full article here.
Add Andrew Kantor to the list, too.
Related articles:
Kantor: ‘Mac fans are nothing if not predictable’ – January 12, 2007
USA Today writer: Apple iPhone is an ‘ordinary, average product’ at heart – January 12, 2007
USA Today tech writer: Apple’s Boot Camp will get Mac users to switch to Windows – April 14, 2006
USA Today columnist calls Mac users and Apple fans a ‘cult of blind little lemmings’ – September 16, 2005
USA Today: Apple’s iPod nano ‘a beautiful piece of hardware’ – but ‘the competition has caught up’ – September 16, 2005
USA Today writer: Apple’s iTunes Music Store’s ‘restrictive license’ fosters rampant piracy – March 25, 2005
USA Today writer unhappy with MacDailyNews and some Mac users’ emails – October 18, 2004
USA Today writer attempts to downplay Apple’s role in Virginia Tech supercomputer – September 03, 2004
“Enderle Ou Thurrott Dvorak
is an anagram for
O.K.! Unloved, hatred torturer!”
TMF, man you are kinda freakin’ me out. How do you do that?
Surprised no one has added Hiwatha Bray to the list. Perhaps he’s been taking his meds lately, but us old salts remember his fixation on the iMac “hockey puck” mouse and no floppy drives ravings.
I can’t remember the last time I even thought about using a floppy and decent USB mice have been available for under $20 for at least 10 years.
The last two cars I bought haven’t had locks on the glove compartment (and they are the top of the line tim level models) or floor mats.
Leaves me with the impression that PC owners are Stingy, misers, or henpecked when it comes to trivial amounts of money.
— Hano
P.S. For all of the posts who insistently seek to insert ongoing national politics into the discussion… The following is directed squarely at you:
<u>PLEASE</u> give it a rest!
Isn’t it bad enough that we have nearly two dozen candidates running for president a full 20 months before the election? Isn’t nauseating enough that no one can turn on the news and not see footage of some candidate or another at a fund-raiser? I come here to escape such foolishness, not watch it splash over.
Grow up!
The most disappointing to me over the years would have to be Guy Kawasaki. I used to love his commentary in Macworld, but he turned to the dark side.
Surprised no one has added Hiwatha Bray to the list. Perhaps he’s been taking his meds lately, but us old salts remember his fixation on the iMac “hockey puck” mouse and no floppy drives ravings.
I can’t remember the last time I even thought about using a floppy and decent USB mice have been available for under $20 for at least 10 years. The last two cars I bought haven’t had locks on the glove compartment (and they are the top of the line trim level models) or floor mats.
Leaves me with the impression that PC owners are Stingy, misers, or henpecked when it comes to trivial amounts of money.
— Hano
P.S. For all of the posts who insistently seek to insert ongoing national politics into the discussion… The following is directed squarely at you:
<u>PLEASE</u> give it a rest!
Isn’t it bad enough that we have nearly two dozen candidates running for president a full 20 months before the election? Isn’t nauseating enough that no one can turn on the news and not see footage of some candidate or another at a fund-raiser? I come here to escape such foolishness, not watch it splash over.
Grow [the F] up!
Yeah, PLEASE keep the American political garbage to…hmmm…oh yeah, an American political forum.
Haven’t you guys figured out why the rest of the world hates you yet?
cant post
halp!
“Haven’t you guys figured out why the rest of the world hates you yet?”
Yes. Jealousy breeds contempt.
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Thorin: There are several decent anagram generators and some excellent English to binary translators and even a few Klingon translators out on the intarweb. And a few dirty ASCII art collections are still around.
Here’s one of the better anagram makers:
http://www.anagramgenius.com/server.html
Er, I don’t think they’re jealous.
I have seen Enderle quoted in a two or three print articles in the past few months.
Er, who gives a sh*t what they are. Why do people fixate on this need to be liked? Like me, hate, kiss my ass. I don’t care.
Take a bath, Europe, you stink.
Oooh, dirty ASCII, sounds nasty. Back that ASCII up, oh yeah.
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Oh, well at least I stay out of the politics…
And, er, I don’t think it’s hate.
Here are some examples of who HATE us
Iran
Korea
China
Russia
Syria
Sudan
And a lot of that is just the governments and a percent of the population who control the money.
Most countries want to emulate us, in some fashion. Not in foreign policy, of course. That would require they spend way more on other countries than they want.
easy, Thorin, or she will be thor in something, too!
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What’s perverse, TT, is the billions of dollars in aide we give to those countries through the UN and through our own channels. I say we quit the UN and ask them to move their headquarters to a more deserving nation, like Egypt or Venezuela. Imagine the monumental amount of tax dollars we could use to benefit Americans in need if we only had the spine to tell the UN to get stuffed. Our pockets are getting picked by every one goat dust bowl, meanwhile we have Americans living with no electricity or running water! John Edwards is right, there are two Americas…the one he lives in and the one next door where his dirt poor neighbors can barely scratch out an existence…
“the one he lives in and the one next door where his dirt poor neighbors can barely scratch out an existence…”
not to worry…they won’t be living there long. Had to put the place up for sale. For some reason his property taxes went up. Something about a multimillion dollar house in the ‘hood built, I think, by this guy……
It costs $400 to look that good TT. Notice the silky radiance? His hair is touchably soft!
Yes, he would make quite the vogue commander-in-chief.
And to many, that IS substance.
Just the man we need to lead us in retreat, hair billowing in the breeze, as he signs the new tax hikes to ‘equalize’ the disparity of our shameless society.
Run, Fred, run.
Add to the list anyone who posts political diatribes on a Mac news site.
You people of earth are idiots!
Here’s my list!
– Cpt. Obvious – the irony! Fails to see the obvious half the time.
– Reality Check – more irony. Reality Check is worst when he tries to live up to his name.
– Enuz – either he’s really good at faking, or he’s the craziest Windows lemming I’ve ever seen. In this one, he was just looking for it.
– =[corrected] – spends way too much time on stupid stuff, like flipping through archives like pages of a book.
Thank you for your lack of support, and remember that I will never be quite as bad as a chrome-plated turd.
OBill-Wan Kenobi
What’s perverse, TT, is the billions of dollars in aide we give to those countries through the UN and through our own channels.
No, what’s perverse is that the US spends many billions more trying to impose US will on the rest of the world, even when it’s painfully clear that the world does not want it.
Never mind the billions the US spends to arm governments around the world with little care for who ends up getting killed.
This restraint business is killing me.
I may fall off the wagon.
@ His Shadow
Imposing our will on the rest of the world? Exaggerate much? See, that’s the problem with arguing in hyperbole – you say something like that and any rational person immediately dismisses you because it a ridiculous statement. Now if you had picked a specific example of where and how we were trying to “impose our will” it would be worth reading and discussing because you may have a valid point. But what if the U.S. had zero global presence? Who would put pressure on the dictators of the world? Europe? They would word a benign statement of displeasure and threaten sanctions followed by caving in and apologizing for being overbearing coupled with a huge financial package that would ultimately be used to buy weapons and/or solid gold toilets. For a clear example of Europes diplomatic skills see Iran and North Korea.
As far as selling weapons: England, France, Germany, Russia, China, Pakistan and North Korea all sell arms/weapons systems to other nations. In fact it’s French and German weapons killing American troops in Iraq right now. Do they care any more than we do who gets killed by their weapons? Should they? Why do you hold the U.S. to a higher standard than those other countries? Because it’s convenient and it feels good to slam the big bad U.S. Right? Right.
We’re just so damn evil, it’s no wonder people are leaving this country in droves.
OBill-Wan Kenobi
Imposing our will on the rest of the world? Exaggerate much
Did you have another USA in mind? Is there another USA that maintains massive bases all over the world, and uses it’s Navy to project it’s power over nations? Is there another USA that decides to pursue illegal wars in contravention of international law under false pretexts?
See, that’s the problem with arguing in hyperbole – you say something like that and any rational person immediately dismisses you because it a ridiculous statement.
The problem isn’t my supposed hyperbole, it’s the USA’s willful ignorance with regards to the direct and indirect results of their actions, and it’s citizens willful ignorance with regard to understanding anything about the world out side their borders.
Canada is the USA’s largest supplier of energy and goods and most US citizens couldn’t find Canada on a map.
Arrogance and Ignorance are a dangerous combination, and the current Administration has both in spades.
We won’t bother to address the active economic sabotage directed at said trading partner, or the refusal to abide by international agreements.