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If someone pays him to write this stuff I think he is projecting his own secret onto Jobs.
So the iPhone isn't going to be successful because it bucks the current trend with smartphones? Right, because no one wants to use improved technology.
Ten years later and Dvorak is still predicting the demise of Apple. Will someone forward him Apples first quarter results and ping me when he starts frothing at the mouth and the guys in the white coats come back to lock him up...
CBS MarketWatch + John C. Dvorak = FAKE, but INACCURATE.
Sorry I didn't read the whole article which may be trash, but this statement outlines what I see as the one obvious possible design issue with the iPhone. I remember the original Palm Pilots, and didn't really care for them, although I still supported them and WinCE devices at work. They were both eventually supplanted by the Blackberry, in great part because of the provided "thumbpad" that provided an easily accessible physical interface that significantly exceeded the virtual keypads on both the Pilots and CE devices.
I now have both a Blackberry for work and a Treo for personal use, both of which have thumbpads, and often post to this site from my Treo, which unfortunately would appear to be more difficult from the proposed Apple design but otherwise appears exceptional with regard to both hardware and software technology. Apple should investigate providing an externally pluggable thumbpad, as the Sony Palm devices previously had, to provide that feature to those who are interested, and still not sacrifice screen size, although this would leave you with a larger overall device. Plug it in when wanted, disconnect when not, of course assuming near size foldout bluetooth or pluggable keyboards would be available for longer typing sessions as well.
What a pointless article... If you want to bash the iPhone as ripping off windows ce / mobile/ whatever they call it now go ahead and post the side by side comparison..
Heh... Dvorak is right on, particularly about the reality distortion field. It reminds me of that episode of the X-Files where Mulder and Scully moved into that gated community to try to figure out why people kept disappearing...
1. Write article poking a stick at Apple to provoke readers.
2. Readers respond.
3. Write article professing amazement at reaction to previous article.
Repeat.
Ballmer's upset because Apple is selling a phone that will be a failure? I don't get this at all. And neither, apparently, does Dvorak because he dropped the topic to talk about meditation (or something) for the second half of the article.