John Dvorak gets it wrong
Everything, everywhere, not one thing somewhere
Apple, says John, “Should Spin Off the Macintosh“.
He’s utterly and philosophically wrong.
It’s understandable, of course, anyone who thought that computers needed to be beige boxes would feel the same, but they do not. Apple’s Mac is today a peer player in an ocean of connected devices — Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, even the TV — all of these different “things’ inform and learn from one another. In future we will forget what using a PC used to be like because we’ll have gotten so used to doing many of the things we used to do on them on other devices.
That’s what macOS Sierra is all about — (here’s my first look at Sierra)
Dvorak is basically blinkered. He didn’t get the memo. He is not looking at the future of pervasive computing everywhere, but a past of little back rooms with glimmering cathode ray tubes in which devices were not connected.
The future of computing is networks, multiple devices, voice control and seamless migration and collaboration on projects across multiple device families, platforms and more.
The notion Apple should break out part of its business flies in the face of that reality.
My argument is that philosophically there’s no difference between an Apple Watch and a Mac — they just offer different tangents on computing in different (complementary) forms.
Apple hasn’t even begun scratching the surface of this huge great big new connected reality.
And Dvorak doesn’t seem to have a clue what’s coming. In my opinion he’s talking like reactionary isolationist who doesn’t understand how to play in a mutually supportive, ultimately connected new reality. He’s the Brexit voter of IT, and just like them, should be ignored. Even if people like him prevail in the short term, in the long term life will prove them wrong.
The future of computing is everywhere and everything. And yes, of course your Mac is part of the game.
Stay tuned.
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“He’s talking like reactionary isolationist who doesn’t understand how to play in a mutually supportive, ultimately connected new reality. He’s the Brexit voter of IT, and just like them, should be ignored.”
The new reality is that everyone must be connected, thus shared? I pass.
they already are. so how do you navigate that environment?
When is Dvorak right?
Less often than a broken timepiece?
Next time, avoid Dvorak’s bait and ignore his stupid columns. He doesn’t deserve the attention, which is the only reason he posts stupid columns in the first place.
As of today, the Mac is the only Apple device that serves as a development platform for Apple software. If only for this reason, Apple absolutely needs the Mac. Unfortunately for Dvorak, this is not the only benefit the Mac provides to Apple and its customers.
Yep. Bloated gas bag.
I wonder how John Dvorak is permitted to write for journals/magazines such as PC World – I hate to make anyone fell bad, but this type of writing reflects poorly on PC World.
I do find him clueless !
Now come on, folks – Dvorak is always amusing, which is why we read him. There certainly aren’t any other good reasons for allowing one’s eyeballs to stray over to his column. Although just occasionally, what he says is thought-provoking as well as annoying, which is also a useful function – kind of like the Richard Dawkins of IT…
John Dvorak is still alive? Who knew.
That would have been a hard headline to write