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Posted on 07/26/2007 12:43:36 PM PDT by Swordmaker
If 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.
Thanks to Freeper George W. Bush for the heads up...
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Not only is he using it, he’s recommending it.
I seem to have LOST track. Isn’t there a technology COLUMNIST who likes to INSERT capitalized words for basically NO reason all through HIS columns? I thought IT was Dvorak but his LATEST column doesn’t show this TICK.
as someone who does recommend gear to people, I have to think to myself, "Should I recommend something that will come back to haunt me, or recommend a Mac with its higher price but lower hassle factor?" The answer is simple. I hate the idea of having to do customer service for people who cannot keep their systems clean, and that's most people.
There was such a columnist at one time, but I can’t recall which one. I don’t think it was Dvorak. Maybe it was the old Robert X. Cringely, or Spencer F. Katt, or Adam Osborne.
Dvorak was the original “Contributing Anti-Editor” at MacUser many years ago. He may have been using Macs all along.
Dvorak, is that you? LOL.
Who’s next? Maybe Steve Ballmer??
And sure enough, the sky was falling; and emblazoned upon it in clouds of fire was one sentence. "John Dvorak is using a Mac."He's used Macs for years, just not exclusively so. He wrote the "Devil's Advocate" column for the last page of MacUser, and did that for a number of years. :')
John Dvorak stopped using Macs way before OS X...
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