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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. Dvorak Economic Model by freerangegeek · · Score: 5, Insightful

    1) Say something braindead and contrarian about Apple
    2) Get it posted on slashdot to flame contreversy
    3) Get eyeballs on published work
    4) Profit

  2. Zonk Strikes Again! by astrosmash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who else would post a Dvorak troll to the front page? What a waste.

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  3. Readers to Editors: Stop Posting Dvorak Articles! by skeevy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unless Slashot is adopting the Dvorak page-hit-generation-model by posting intentionally inflammatory references to intentionally inflammatory articles.

  4. Re:Slashdot to Dvorak: Stop the Apple Trolling! by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I bring this up every time someone posts some Dvorak drivel, that said...

    Why does Slashdot actually post an article that is classified to the "wave-off-wave-off" department? We all know people are going to think Dvorak is ridiculous flame bate, and we all know most of us aren't going to bother reading his garbage. What's the point of rewarding Dvorak with web traffic from Slashdot?

    Dvorak's predictions about the tech industry, and especially Apple, are about as accurate as Dick Cheney's predictions about the war in Iraq.

    Write a Dvorak filter, put a post-it note on your monitor, do something. By linking to his work you're indirectly paying him to be a tool.

    Christ, if you're going to post John Dvorak articles, you might as well start posting V1AgRA spam that you get in your email.

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  5. Re:Well if Dvorak doesn't like it... by Ortega-Starfire · · Score: 5, Insightful
    He's wrong on occasion - but that doesn't mean he's ALWAYS wrong.

    Even a broken clock gives the correct time twice a day, right? Dvorak is about as accurate as that.

    Now that Dvorak has condemned it, I shall now buy stock in Apple, for this is now a sure thing.

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