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Apple to 'Switch' to Windows?
JFlex writes "PC Mags writer John C. Dvorak discusses the idea that Apple may dump OS X and 'switch' to running Windows in a recent column: "The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who wrote to me convinced that the process had already begun. I was amused, but after mulling over various coincidences, I'm convinced he may be right. This would be the most phenomenal turnabout in the history of desktop computing.""
Or is it only the ridiculous Dvorak articles that get posted on Slashdot?
Want to give all of us some sort of shock treatment to see how bad we can react?
why doesn't he just go hunting with Dick Cheney?
America to switch to the metric system and soccer is now America's favorite sport.
Exactly. How would it be different from buying, say, an Alienware PC?
Why is this front page news? And where's my "report as lame" button?
It's just that all of his articles are ridiculous these days...
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What did Steve Jobs have to say when John C. Dvorak asked him to confirm this?
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remember this is Dvorak.
He Claimed up until the Day they announced it that Apple will never do a Video Ipod.
Hell Dvorak did not even go to CES and yet he still wrote about it.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
There's a huge difference.
Switching to the metric system would be smart.
"How Apple is going to Screw Up Again" ...if you didn't get it by now, Dvorak's only point is to get you to CLICK ON HIS ARTICLE. It really doesn't matter if he makes any sense or not, he just wants you to click on the article to increase his hits. Don't feed the trolls.
"OS X: The Worst Interface on Earth"
"The iPod's Coming Disaster"
"Why Linux will fail"
"Why AMD Sucks"
etc.
The US switched to the metric system in 1893.
Unfortunately they apparently aren't aware of the fact.
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Made from the freshest electrons.
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Oh, wait. Maybe we weren't talking about communications tools, maybe we were talking about entertainment devices?
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Oh man, where to begin. Let's ignore the four points, they're not his and garbage anyway. As for his personal analysis, well that's garbage too.
"But if Apple's saber-rattling was done to scare the community into backing off so it wouldn't discover the Windows stratagem, then the incident makes more sense."
What does rumors about a breakout music production box have to do with that? Hey Dvorak, there's rumors of a REAL video iPod...but BACK OFF, you might uncover their plan to switch over to Windows!
"This switch to Windows may have originally been planned for this year and may partly explain why Adobe and other high-end apps were not ported to the Apple x86 platform when it was announced in January." Yeah, Adobe is always first to have their apps completely ported. They had PPC support right away, and were the first with Altivec support. If Adobe hasn't updated their apps for OS X on Intel, then there must be a conspiracy.
"At Macworld, most observers said that these new Macs could indeed run Windows now."
And since then, it's been proven that it won't work out of the box. This has been pretty well known since Macworld, shouldn't Dvorak be a little more on top of things? Did he even attend Macworld, or did he ask the janitor emptying the garbage what looked neat?
"Another issue for Apple is that the Intel platform is wide open, unlike the closed proprietary system Apple once had full control over."
Where did Apple say they were going to support every piece of hardware, nowhere that I've seen. Hmmm, there's even restrictions in OS X to allow it to only run on sanctioned hardware (until it get's hacked). Looks like from OS X's commercial standpoint, they're still only need to support a closed system.
"As someone who believed that the Apple OS x86 could gravitate toward the PC rather than Windows toward the Mac, I have to be realistic. It boils down to the add-ons. Linux on the desktop never caught on because too many devices don't run on that OS. It takes only one favorite gizmo or program to stop a user from changing."
Oh where to begin. No one ever thought Windows would really run on a Mac, did they? What does that have to do with anything? Linux on the desktop, maybe it never caught on because it isn't installed in people computers when they got them. Maybe it's because there isn't a great consistent easy to use/configure/maintain/whatever desktop environment yet. Is there a point to these sentences?
"To preserve the Mac's slick cachet, there is no reason an executive software layer couldn't be fitted onto Windows to keep the Mac look and feel. Various tweaks could even improve the OS itself."
Right, let's skin Windows to look like OS X, that's useful. And I'm sure MS will give them all the code needed to tweak the OS. That's almost as funny as "Windows, as crappy as many believe it to be, actually thrives in this mishmash architecture."
Sure, I quoted half the article here, but only cuz I was too lazy to mock every single sentence.
He's saying the 62 Chrysler would be really fast, but in the end it'll just crash. :-D
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Lois: You're drunk again.
Peter: No, I'm just exhausted 'cause I've been up all night drinking & dreaming up a dumber Apple story than finding a mac virus in the wild.
Sig Hansen?
Actually, if Dvorak were talking out of his ass, THAT would be interesting.
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H.L. Mencken
He Claimed up until the Day they announced it that Apple will never do a Video Ipod.
:)
No, no, that was Steve Jobs.
Dvorak has a reality distortion field too, but he's got it on backwards, so it only distorts reality for him, obviously.
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
Make wild, unfounded claims on scant, irrational chains of thought no would dare call "logic."
Publish it.
Get people talking about what a moron you are and how absurd your predictions are.
Collect your royalty fees and advertising revenue from all the page hits your absurdity got. In other words, Profit!
Here's my prediction: Underpants Gnomes to hire Dvorak as their new business consultant.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
and I don't think I will ever buy a Windows machine again.
Spoken like a true Mac user. Sorry, but what you call a "windows machine" is usually an x86 processor - you know, like the one Apple just switched to. So, you will, in fact, be buying many, many more "Windows machines". You just won't be running Windows on them.
Yep, I'm in pretty much the same boat.
In fact, I prove him even wronger, because I slid down the iPod-to-Mac slippery slope.
It all started with a 3G iPod. That led to a Mac Mini with a gig of RAM (made a huge difference from the 512MB I started with), an iPod Shuffle, and (once I'm rich enough) probably a Macbook.
In other news, Dvorak is a jackass.
Oh, and I have to say that Entourage is aces.
Not if you have to support the fucker. It's a piece of shit.
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Stor
"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
It's not April first yet ... this must just be a typo
Ouch.
Do you have ESP?
that all depends on the bus. If it was one of those VW mini-buses with an apple sticker on the back window, you better believe I'm not going Mac anytime soon.
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