“Now that the fizz has dissipated regarding the Apple Inc. iPad, we can objectively look at the device and conclude that it probably will not have the impact on the market that the iPhone had,” John C. Dvorak writes for MarketWatch.
MacDailyNews Take: Funny, John. Too bad you’ve never looked at anything Apple has created with anything remotely resembling objectivity. It’s a good thing you dropped “probably” in there, too, Mr. Conviction.
Dvorak continues, “If you’ve been looking for a giant iPod Touch, this is the machine for you. So I’ve listened to the complaints about this device from every corner and found one interesting angle nobody seems to have noticed: people are grousing. They are not grousing to an extreme, since every one has their pet complaint, but they are indeed grousing. People do not realize that this in itself is a big deal regarding anything Apple. People may grouse about the company’s arrogance, but they never find much fault with the products themselves. So it’s a huge change of attitude when they complain at all.”
MacDailyNews Take: Horseshit. People like John — who critique from afar without ever needing to actually touch, much less use, Apple products — complained exactly the same way over the Mac, the iMac, Mac OS X, iPod, iTunes, iTunes Store, iPhone, etc. There is no “huge change of attitude.” The only thing huge is John’s fat head which has a nasty habit of continuously puking baseless, paint-by-numbers, hit-whorish negativity.
Dvorak continues, “Apple has not made a serous misstep since Steve Jobs arrived and introduced the original iMac. It did roll out a weird looking laptop that looked like a toilet seat but that was taken in stride as was the AppleTV device which people simply could not understand how to use.”
MacDailyNews Take: Funny line about the first iBook. Real original, John. It’s been a few years since we heard it the first thousand times. Apple TV, by the way, is the biggest so-called “misstep” in the world. Piper Jaffray estimates that Apple has sold 6.6 million Apple TVs so far. That’s well more than double the number that analysts estimate Amazon’s so-called “huge hit” Kindle has sold. That’s right: 2.5 million Amazon Kindles is a hit, but 6.6 million Apple TVs is a flop. Let’s pause a moment and let the absurd duplicity wash over us, shall we? Ahhh…
The bloated gas bag who hasn’t gotten one thing right yet continues, “Let’s look at the basic flaws people are complaining about… First of all there is no stylus.”
MacDailyNews Take: First of all: There are plenty of styluses for available if you want one (here’s just one example). Secondly: Apple’s Multi-Touch™ UI has rendered styluses obsolete beyond drawing. Using a stylus for anything else, especially for navigating a device’s UI is like using a pager. Or whiteout. And, thirdly: “The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things.” – John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984
Dvorak plods on, “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.”
MacDailyNews Take: “I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it.” – John C. Dvorak commenting on the debut of iPhone, CNBC, January 11, 2007
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MacDailyNews Take: Congrats Apple! There’s no stronger guarantee of success than Dvorak’s kiss of death on an Apple product. This following Thurrott’s smooch. We can hardly wait for Enderle to pucker up and cap off the usual trifecta of mind-numbing stupidity that heralds yet another Apple triumph.
The Three Stooges! LOL
Nice new push feature on the iPhone.
Give him the finger. There’s your stylus for you, bud.
Is Dvorak Curly Joe or just Curly? Perhaps Shemp? ahahaha
More predictable DvorakTripe
Another fool living in the dark ages and writing crap on something he has only seen from afar, not touched and actually used. He’s resorting to hearsay. And there’s nothing like selective hearing to really undermine the hearsay he’s building his fallacious arguments upon. So really we all should tell this myopic butthole dvorak to shut the f*ck up and wait till he has used an iPad before spewing forth his shower of bullsh*t. How does this guy improve humanity even by one iota? He doesn’t, therefore he is a waste of space.
I will be getting 2 ipads, and it still won’t be enough, I do wish they had a camera and iChat, but AT&T;would NOT be able to handle that traffic and they would get sued if they blocked it, so we have what we have
“The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things.” – John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1994″
What a vision!
p.s. some people should use a wooden calculator and record their voice&music;on a wax cylinder. No more, no less.
“I have a hard time believing that after seeing this folks are going to want an e-reader that just does plain text,” said analyst Rob Enderle of Enderle Group. “This is going to do some significant damage to existing e-readers on the market, even the formatted ones like the Plastic Logic Que.”
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/hardware/Apple-iPad-lays-claim-to-tablet-PC-market/articleshow/5511190.cms
Oh nos.. we’re doomed, Enderle not playing fair.
“Enderle praises, dooms iPad”
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/28/enderle-praises-doom.html
That’s it- iPad will be a success- a HUGE success. Thurrutt & Dvorak just guaranteed it.
Total hit whores.
Styus??? – ah- no.
Stylus? Ol’ Johnny D. must be pulling our collective leg with this one, looking for hits are usual. He can’t possibly be suggesting that most consumers want to pull out a stylus from some hole in the side to use an iPad. That is beyond hilarious.
@krquet
Don’t worry. If Enderle fails to do his job, we have plenty of other idiots to sub for him. Ballmer, Dell, most of the c/net MS drones… LOL
Criticism is the provence of little minds.
To all the critics, pundits and geek whiners, this video on Gizmodo pretty much says everything you (and they) need to know:
http://gizmodo.com/5459050/a-message-about-the-apple-ipad-from-the-iphone
The lack of a stylus is a feature, not a bug.
How can Dvorak be so continuously wrong about his predictions on a company and still be allowed to cover them? You would think his boss would say “Hey John, no more commentating on Apple products, you have yet to ever be right.” But all the MS money coming in to support him must keep him in the saddle.
The National Enquirer has more credibility than this crack by-product.
@REALTORben
Because he will get tons of hits on his POS opinion.
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A sensible article, http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/01/29/get-real-geeks-the-ipad-is-the-apple-for-mum-not-you/
Sheesh Dvorak!
Just a side note about video. We all want to iChat from an iPad (very Star Trek like). But here’s a limitation that may have factored into its omission on these first versions:
Video compression saves bandwidth by just sending the changes in the image, not the whole thing. That’s OK with a stationary desktop or laptop, but as you know if you’ve ever walked around with a laptop while chatting, the compression goes haywire with too much movement, even on a fat WAN connection.
By it’s very nature, an iPad is handheld, so even just a little shakiness could make it a very unpleasant, glitchy user experience, especially on G3.
I think he’s right. Because it won’t run pandora while I surf the Web.
I hate to say it but the iPad is a over sized Touch. I really was hoping for a machine that ran OS X I’ll be waiting for gen 2
Please, flock to this poll:
Poll Technica: do you want Flash on the iPad?
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/poll-technica-do-you-want-flash-on-the-ipad.ars
He’s right. Apple had a few years to develop a tablet w/OS and get those things right… and this is what we got. A giant iPod Touch. It’s very disappointing and I expected more from Apple. I’ll still buy one because it’s lighter than laptop and larger than an iPhone.
Thurott, now Dvorak, where’s Enderle’s ridiculous criticism? They always come in threes, don’t they?
I think he is right because:
• It does not have a hinge.
• It does not have a mouse.
• No Firewire….JEEZ!
I am sure the list will grow infinitely longer as more pundits find more fault with the next “thing”.