“Apple, says John [Dvorak], ‘Should Spin Off the Macintosh,'” Jonny Evans writes for Apple Must. “He’s utterly and philosophically wrong.”
“Apple’s Mac is today a peer player in an ocean of connected devices — Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, even the TV — all of these different “things’ inform and learn from one another. In future we will forget what using a PC used to be like because we’ll have gotten so used to doing many of the things we used to do on them on other devices,” Evans writes. “That’s what macOS Sierra is all about.”
“Dvorak is basically blinkered. He didn’t get the memo,” Evans writes. “The notion Apple should break out part of its business flies in the face of that reality.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The bloated gasbag doesn’t get Apple. Shocking.
• “There are a lot of flaws with the MacBook Air, and it is unlikely to be much of a success.” – John C. Dvorak, Bloated Gas Bag, January 25, 2008
• “Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone… What Apple risks here is its reputation as a hot company that can do no wrong. If it’s smart it will call the iPhone a ‘reference design’ and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else’s marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures… Otherwise I’d advise people to cover their eyes. You are not going to like what you’ll see.” – John C. Dvorak, Bloated Gas Bag, March 28, 2007
• “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.” – John C. Dvorak, Bloated Gas Bag, January 13, 2007
• “The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse.’ There is no evidence that people want to use these things.” – John C. Dvorak, Bloated Gas Bag, February 19, 1984
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Seriously, he sounds like a market analyst trying to get Apple to cash out of an important link of the ecosystem where all things Apple work together seamlessly. It just works.
Back to “knife the baby”
Dvorak = Ranting Gasbag Nonsensical Central indeed. Wonder how it feels being an abject tech writing laughingstock like him and never taken seriously since the 90’s? He is the arena Clown of the Ringling & Barnum & Bailey tech space, reliably making his audience laugh and shake their heads.
We should all be thankful for the Dvoraks of the world. They are the ultimate buy indicator of AAPL.
He also said: “When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor’s cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?”
#facepalm
Absolutely damning quote train.
Dvorak is a perfect opposite-barometer.
Does anyone actually pay Dvorak to write this drivel?
At this point even the voices in John’s head have stopped talking to him.
Anyone who thinks that John C iisn’t
laughing every time he writes one of these, knowing that he’s getting you fanbois in a tither, is an idiot.
He has admitted to trolling Apple fans. As long as MDN and others give him clicks on a platter why would he stop?
Apparently MDN values the economic benefit in co-trolling and link-baiting its own users, otherwise why does it continue linking to Dvorak’s completely crazy posts?
Maybe ZDNet should spin-off John Dvorak?! 🖖😀⌚️
Dvorak: The Whöre of Silicon.
To quote someone else I have little respect for,
“You can’t be that wrong that many times in a row unless you’re working at it.”
Dvorak is hilarious. He is one of the funniest tech “journalists” around and if you take his “pronouncements” seriously, you are missing the point.
That said, I wish Apple would spin off the Mac Pro and professional video/audio applications. I think the professional market is being and has been sacrificed to the goal of owning the high end consumer market. It is hard to argue with Apple’s success, but I hate to see Apple toss away the professional users. The cylinder Mac Pro is a beautiful device and when released was a powerful modern machine. But not addressing its shortcomings (lack of options and upgradibility) or releasing new versions in two years!?! It is a high end play thing, not the serious professional machine the “cheese grater” Mac is.
not only is Dvorak not getting the ecosystem argument his reasoning that Macs are irrelevant as “PC sales are flagging… it’s seen as dead” is also wrong for Macs last quarter made more money than iPads, probably a lot more than Apple Watch etc.
So apple should probably just break off all those other stuff as well as they don’t match iPhone sales? BTW NOTHING in the world matches iPhone profits, by itself it’s larger than Google or Microsoft or all the cars sold by Ford combined. If iPhone is the benchmark that you have to match every product in the world is failure…
Macs have maybe 10 – 15 % USA market share and lower elsewhere, plenty of room to grow.
also macOS (OSX) is the granddaddy crown jewels of Apple, iOS, Apple TV etc are all derived from it and it’s still way more powerful than the rest.
Is he still alive?????
… Idiot.
Has this idiot got ANYTHING right since he was fired from MacUser (or MacWorld I don’t remember which) Magazine years ago? Why would anyone listen to anything he has to say (or write)? Another blowhard, egomaniac that doesn’t have to stones to admit he was wrong in the past and will likely always be wrong about things he fails to understand.
The only things Apple needs to spin off are Tim Cook and Jonny Ive. Both are in way over their heads, and shareholders are going to pay the price for their foolish decisions.