Comments on: A Quick Lesson for Everyone

By: Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:10:01 +0000

Dvorak is a child. He thinks that just because he can get the lions angry by teasing them with a stick, he is some kind of genius. He’s not. An escaped monkey could accomplish as much.

The fun thing is to email him whenever he pulls a stunt like this, because his reactions to criticism are usually quite shrill. He calls you names.

But what do we expect? Dvorak is one of the few actual Mac to Windows switchers. He knows that the move, made for money, revealed him to be soulless and without integrity.

In the eternal Mac vs PC argument, there are fanatics on both sides, but there is a critical difference between the two. Mac fanatics are fanatical because they know they’re right. PC fanatics are fanatical because they know they’re wrong.

That’s Dvorak.

By: John M.

John M. — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:44:28 +0000

Cause he is so good at it. He’s paid to throw these bombshells. I find him entertaining.

By: Andrew Coles

Andrew Coles — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:54:31 +0000

You’re exactly right on Dvorak. What bothers me is that he’s been doing this for years, and people still fall for it. Why does anyone even read him any more? When is the last time he said anything that turned out to be true, or even relevant?

By: Chris Holland

Chris Holland — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 23:36:16 +0000

Hear-hear, Nick :)

By: John M.

John M. — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:01:10 +0000

John Dvorak has been writing columns like this one for decades. He does it because he knows how it sets certain people off. Call him a provocateur or a troll. He just likes to stir up a hornets nest now and then. And it looks like he has succeeded again.

For those who are (relatively) new to the Mac, he was MacUser’s official “Anti-Editor” back in the magazine’s early days.