Dvorak to Apple - Stop The iPhone

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.'"

Comments

Re:I can think of a couple people who will buy one

[Seumas]

There's no way in hell I'm going to buy one. I want my phone to do one simple thing. Make calls. A nice little phone that makes calls and has a long battery life. Then, for my music, I want an ipod. Not a crappy 2gb phone-merged piece of crap. I want a 300gb ipod (yes, I can dream).

Why do I need to have fifty devices all in one? All you end up with is fifty half-assed devices. Take a queue from the unix world and provide devices that do one thing and do that thing incredibly well. I'm not going to pay $500 for a brick of suck plus a couple hundred a month for all the extra pointless services.

And yes, I own Apple products - including a 17" powerbook and a 30" ACD yadda yadda.

Re:The credentials speak for themselves

[soft_guy]

Well, you do have to credit him with developing the Dvorak keyboard layout which has been shown to increase typing efficiency greatly.