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Dvorak to Apple - Stop The iPhone

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wave-off-wave-off dept.

eldavojohn writes "John Dvorak is advising Apple to cease all efforts on the iPhone, citing the mobile handset business as a 'buzz saw waiting to chop up newbies.' With Apple's image as a 'hot company that can do no wrong' on the line, Dvorak warns that the extremely fad-prone marketplace for cell phones will quickly turn the 'hot' iPhone passe'. Unless the company has several new models in the pipeline to release after the original offering, he says, they're likely to fail. '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.'"

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  1. Slashdot to Dvorak: Stop the Apple Trolling! by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Seriously, there's nothing to see here. Move along. Dvorak has known for decades that Apple users are protective of the Apple name and products. So he regularly goes about trying to get those users worked up. He even admits it here! Rather than giving him the satisfaction of getting you worked up again, why don't you try ignoring him for a change?

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    1. Re:Slashdot to Dvorak: Stop the Apple Trolling! by Dogtanian · · Score: 5, Informative

      Microsoft - Should get out of the operating systems business and start a chain of chicken finger restaurants. Get real. That is one HELL of a stupid suggestion.

      Chickens don't have fingers.
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  2. Calling your bluff by michaelmalak · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here is a photo of the Apple store in Baku, Azerbaijan.

    According to this blog, Azerbaijan is actually a good place to get an iPod, compared to the surrounding countries.