John C. Dvorak famous quotes

03-28-2025

The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse.' There is no evidence that people want to use these things.
-- John C. Dvorak

#People #Use #Want
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Fun #Technology #Corporations
Nobody can deny that Apple is fashionable, and most iPhone users buy the newest so they can be fashionable. To do this right, Apple needs a new phone every quarter.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Iphone #Phones #Apples
The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it. ... with the iPad, Apple may have irked its somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Ipads #Apples #May
[A]s for my prediction that [the iPhone] would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Iphone #Ideas #Apples
Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores ... [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Holiday #Successful #Years
I hate to use that term [iPad Killer] since the iPad is probably dead anyway.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Hate #Ipads #Use
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.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Dream #Years #Apples
The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. Once spam mechanisms are developed to eat into these systems, the caretakers will be too busy to stop the public-driven deterioration.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Deterioration #Matter #Busy
The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Technology #Data #Cable Tv
The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Rights #Politics #Bills
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

#Smart #Eye #Iphone
People are only concerned about the next party, meeting up for casual sex, finding a job as a Web page designer, or getting a new apartment.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Jobs #Sex #Party
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?
-- John C. Dvorak

#Doing Nothing #Process #Resources
If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied.
-- John C. Dvorak

#Crush #Apples #Competition

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