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July 26, 2007

huh

Dvorak says not-entirely-negative things about the Mac; the end times are nigh

Posted Jul. 26, ’07, 11:03 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Apple » Huh?

Dvorak's DoomIf you look back through the archives, you’ll see that I haven’t linked to tech curmudgeon John C. Dvorak since his admission in June of last year that he deliberately taunts Mac users in order to get traffic. As much as I like churning out point-by-point rebuttals of Dvorak’s FUD, I decided that he didn’t really need our help to bolster his readership. And so that was that.

Until today, when I was walking down the street and passed a dog which whispered to me: “Hey, buddy, the sky’s falling.” Dogs don’t ordinarily talk to me, so you can bet your vintage Queen LP collection that I looked up. And sure enough, the sky was falling; and emblazoned upon it in clouds of fire was one sentence.

“John Dvorak is using a Mac.”

There were screams; there was general panic in the streets. Nobody knew precisely what was going on, but the consensus seemed to be that the horsemen of the Apocalypse had decided to finish up their afternoon lattes at Starbucks and commence the end of all things. Pamphlets were being circulated plastered with Dvorak’s grumpy mug and choice quotes like “First of all, the machine is not half bad.” I haven’t seen disruption on this level since at least last week’s Harry Potter release.

Things have calmed down a bit since, as it sunk in that Dvorak wouldn’t be switching to a Mac full time. But if nothing else, it is a damining piece of ammunition for the next time Mr. Grumpypants sets out to harangue Mac users.

What’s next? David Maynor and George Ou admitting that the wireless hack was all a hoax? According to my Dashboard widget, the forecast calls for cloudy with an occasional chance of brimstone, so I guess anything is possible.


1 Comments

Bob Atkinson said:

People seem to forget that John Dvorak was a long-time MAC writer, with regular columns and stories in the various Mac print magazine editions back in the late 80s and early 90s, in addition to his work in other computer mags.

I think decided to focus on Windoze publications as a money thing, not any inherent Mac-hatred ...

BA

July 26, 2007 11:33 AM

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