Dvorak Says gPhone is Doomed

drewmoney writes "Speaking with his usual frustrated crankiness John Dvorak rants his way through an article explaining why the gPhone will never work. 'First of all, it wants to put Google search on a phone. It wants to do this because it is obvious to the folks at Google that people need to do Web searches from their phone, so they can, uh, get directions to the restaurant? Of course, they can simply use the phone itself to call the restaurant and ask! I've actually used various phones with Web capability. They never work right. They take forever to navigate. It's hard to read the screens ... I also hope that people note the fact that the public has not been flocking to smartphones of any sort.' "

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[bigstrat2003]

but humans are pack rats - we don't throw shit away - we don't really want to get rid of anything. apple understands this too - and realized that the secret sell for ipods INITIALLY was size. If Apple really understood this, they wouldn't have made the damnably stupid decision to not have a hard drive in the touch-screen iPod. If you want to have a flash option (in addition to a hard drive), great, but as long as I'm limited to 16 GB of music, I will NOT be buying it.

Then again, I think Apple keeps doing things wrong with the ipod anyway (first they screwed up their beautiful interface by putting the buttons on the wheel, now this), and it seems to be working out for them. More power to them, I guess.