“What I’m about to explain may seem obvious, but I’m not sure anyone fully understands the sort of tectonic and fundamental shift taking place in the tech sector with the development and fruition of the new smart phone as epitomized by Apple Inc.’s iPhone,” John C. Dvorak reports for MarketWatch.
MacDailyNews Take: Gee, thanks for explaining it, because nobody gets it, John, you bloated gas bag:
• Why Apple will dominate the next era of computing – March 15, 2008
• Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr: Apple’s iPhone is bigger than the PC – March 14, 2008
• Computerworld: Apple iPhone is breathtakingly ahead of its time – March 14, 2008
• Pogue: iPhone Software 2.0 is going to be a huge, gigantic success – March 13, 2008
• Former Palm exec: Apple’s iPhone Software Roadmap makes other mobile platforms look pretty pathetic – March 12, 2008
• Wireless Developer’s Journal: Apple iPhone now THE platform for the future of mobile computing – March 11, 2008
• John Doerr: Apple iPhone may become the ‘third great platform’ – March 11, 2008
• Computerworld: If you think Apple’s iPhone is popular now, just wait – March 07, 2008
• Get ready for two-decades of mobile domination by Apple – March 07, 2008
• iPhone 2.0: Apple turns both the PC and mobile communications industries upside-down – March 07, 2008
• iPhone 2.0: Apple shows world how to create and grow a platform – March 07, 2008
• Salon: Apple’s Steve Jobs goes long way towards cementing iPhone as leading mobile platform – March 06, 2008
• The once-mighty Palm Inc. doomed to decline and failure – thanks to Apple’s iPhone – February 23, 2007
• Microsoft caught off-guard, beaten badly by Apple’s iPhone innovations – February 13, 2007
• Apple’s soon-to-be iPhone rivals sound just like iPod rivals circa 2001 – February 01, 2007
• RealMoney: Apple just blew up the whole damn mobile-phone supply chain with its new iPhone – January 11, 2007
• eWeek: Apple iPhone fallout: ‘They must be crying in Nokia-ville and other telephony towns today’ – January 10, 2007
• Time: ‘iPhone could crush cell phone market pitilessly beneath the weight of its own superiority’ – January 09, 2007
• Analyst: Apple iPhone should be given its own category – ‘brilliantphone’ – January 09, 2007
SteveJack, MacDailyNews, January 09, 2007, the day Apple unveiled iPhone:
The main thing about the ‘iPhone’ is that it’s really a pocket Mac. It has email, SMS, full-featured Web browsing, and much more. But, beyond that, it is a platform that’s just sitting there waiting for Apple to sell software for it. Just imagine games with the large multi-touch display and the built-in accelerometer! Imagine all of the other software possibilities, too. Given Apple’s history with the iPod (closed to third-party developers), today I’d have to guess that they’ll keep the iPhone under tight control, too. Maybe that will change in the future… Maybe Apple named it iPhone because of all of the free publicity and buzz that name has already garnered. Maybe they want this trojan horse to slip into the market first under the guise of being the best smartphone available and they’ll exploit its capabilities as a full-fledged platform later. Perhaps it’s easier to explain and sell as a phone first. So, yeah, it can be a phone, even the very best smartphone, but it’s so much more and holds so much promise that the name “iPhone” hardly does it justice.
So, thanks for the insight, John. You’re only over a year and nine months late. Better obscenely and unapologetically late than never, we guess.
Dvorak continues, “I have been thinking about this development since the device was first shipped. While much of the buzz around the product was credited to good PR, I think there was a deeper meaning to the apparent nuttiness.”
MacDailyNews Take: John C. Dvorak is a bloviating know-nothing. Here’s what the Hit Whore has really been “thinking” about since we told you, on the day it was unveiled, that Apple’s iPhone would change the world:
• Dvorak bemoans ‘ridiculous over-coverage of the Apple iPhone’ – July 17, 2008
• Apple iPhone drives Dvorak even crazier, screams ‘Shut up about the iPhone, already!’ – June 26, 2007
• Dvorak: Apple iPhone will be duplicated by others within a couple of quarters – June 07, 2007
• Dvorak trolls: ‘Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone’ – March 28, 2007
• Dvorak on Apple iPhone: ‘I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it’ – January 13, 2007
The nuttiness is definitely apparent; the “deeper meaning” is otherwise known as “Hit Whoring.”
Dvorak continues “explaining” what everyone on the planet except Steve Ballmer seems to understand about the iPhone (and even Balmy himself probably knows it behind closed doors) with painful, rib-searing obviousness, “The eventual market for these devices as envisioned by Steve Jobs and Apple will eventually be bigger than anything we’ve ever seen and should surpass the massive PC and desktop computing market before the dust settles.”
“While all the handset makers and carriers are making look-alike phones with plenty of cool functionality, only Apple and Google see this for what it is — a genuine platform shift and an entirely new market direction for mobile devices,” Dvorak writes. “The odd men out in this game appear to be Microsoft and perhaps Research In Motion. RIM may not be able to adjust to this fast enough to continue its winning ways, a victim of its own success.”
Dvorak writes, “What I admire most in this scene is the fact that Google actually foresaw the importance of the iPhone model and did something about it. If the handset makers, who will probably never get an iPhone license, manage to survive in this evolving market, I can assure you they will be thanking Google since the open-source Android code can be used by all of them.”
MacDailyNews Take: Dvorak simultaneously overestimates Google’s Android and fails to realize that iPhone is well protected by patents. We’ll type it yet again: This time other companies will not have the luxury of a poorly written contract signed by an unprepared sugared water salesbozo that’ll allow them to poorly rip-off Apple’s innovations ad infinitum. Apple has over 200 iPhone-related patents that Steve Jobs has publicly-stated Apple plans to vigorously defend:
We’ve been pushing the state-of-the-art in every facet of design… We’ve been innovating like crazy for the last few years on this and we’ve filed for over 200 patents for all of the inventions in iPhone. And we intend to protect them. – Steve Jobs, January 9, 2007
The full spectacle of John C. Dvorak gorging himself on crow without acknowledging even the tiniest bite is here.
Hit Whore. I learned a new phrase.
Please don’t give that guy hits! Thanks.
Jesus F. Christ, you woke me from my nap for THIS?
Wait a minute, wasn’t this the same guy who said prior to last year’s release that the iphone keyboard was a disaster and everyone would be returning it?
Burnett: The iPhone. Who cares about that?
Dvorak: Well, that was the big announcement at CES, which was the announcement at the Macworld Expo here in San Francisco which was the iPhone which doesn’t look, I mean to me, I’m looking at this thing and I think it’s kind of trending against, you know, what’s really going, what people are really liking on, in these phones nowadays, which are those little keypads. I mean, the Blackjack from Samsung, the Blackberry, obviously, you know kind of pushes this thing, the Palm, all these… And I guess some of these stocks went down on the Apple announcement, thinking that Apple could do no wrong, but I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it.
Lol.
Poor John…
Perhaps, ‘it would be less painful to jam a rusty knife up his rectum’ than to keep dispensing his ‘wisdom’ to the masses.
Note to John: find another ‘field of expertise’. You are no longer needed in the tech-sector.
Assuming Dvorak can read may be way too charitable….
Luckily I’m too stupid to realize that MDN just tore me yet another new asshole.
I’ve learned long ago that people like Dvorak only want to hang out with the popular kids. He’s now figured out that the iPhone is popular with America.
Me have dictionary and spell gud!
Bigger than John Dvorak’s big head, too, I’ll wager. And that’s saying something!
Dvorak knows that he’ll always be correct 50 % of the time, by writing one thing, and then not long later, writing the exact opposite.
Hey, kids, it’s easy!
John C. Dvorak could be as stupid as Rob Enderle, who is an idiot.
Years of windows abuse dulls ones senses!
Stupid Iphone Trick: Pause the launch screen when scrollling.
Scroll the screen anywhere from page 1 to page 2 and press and release one of the icons in the dock. It should pause the screen from scrolling… at least it does on mine…
Oh well…… back to the show
@TGABTG… nah, it’s only you. You need to do a reset on your iPhone.
Oh man jabba the hut spoke again eh?
If John likes the iPhone…does that mean we should all short Apple stock?
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Dvorak should pull his own plug.
….oh wait!
‘John C. Dvorak could be as stupid as Rob Enderle, who is an idiot.’
well said. Once again Dvorak’s writing style so predictable…
BORING!!!!
MDN’s snide remarks about Dvorak coming to understand the iPhone’s importance is childish and short sighted. If Dvorak, the ultimate in anti-Apple bias, grasps the iPhone, then what about everyone else? Dvorak’s accurate portrayal of what the iPhone really is, and its potential, should be an eye opener worthy of applause, not derision.
Unfortunately, MDN’s editorial style is to deride people for their past. Not very enlightened.
What weird times we live in. Dvorak right about something. Late late, but… okay ahead of Ballmer isn’t so special.
Actually sometimes I think Ballmer DOES get it, he just doesn’t know what to do about it. The best explanation of Zune is that MS saw where the ipod was headed and said… “oops!” And MS has been acting as if very mobile computing devices were the future for years… they just couldn’t figure out how to make a decent one… or one where their Windows monopoly gave them any advantages.
Back to Dvorak. Perhaps we should all be very very afraid. Maybe we are all wrong and the iphone is just a fad… I mean (and you have to have been around in 1984 to appreciate this): Who ever heard of a computer without function keys?
Dvorjerk-off
Wait a min. Isn’t this the guy that said the Macintosh mouse was a failure? No one in their right mind would use one? Or am I confusing him with Enderlnut?
Dear MDN: We ALL already know Dvorak is a useless, ignorant, trivial twaddling toad.
So PLEASE ignore the ignorant. Ignore Dvorak. Be he right or be he wrong, there is no reason to care. You only draw attention to his feculence.