Re: Mac is the AS/400 of Desktop Computing per Dvorak

At 12:33 PM -0500 6/19/02, Leif Svalgaard wrote:
>strong, and unbecoming, words Lou. Dvorak used to be
>an OS/2 supporter and quite critical on Microsoft.

Leif,

    Strong is what's called for in this instance, and unbecoming words
to describe an unbecoming person.  Dvorak is a shill, and a clueless
one at that.  His "opinions" change with each new employer.  Do I
need to rebut his entire specious article point-by-point?  Better I
should debate someone who believes the Earth is flat or the Moon is
made of cheese.

    Here's one: "but underneath the glitz the new Mac was still the
old Mac. OS X, with its underlying Unix kernel, an update."

    An update?  They remove the whole guts of the operating system,
base the new one on FreeBSD, redesign and rewrite the interface code
from the ground up, integrate it with the Unix layer, and it's just
an "update"?  This from the loser who still believes Microsoft every
time they tell him they've taken DOS out of their latest version of
Windows.  Yeah, well humans are just an update of apes and the space
shuttle is just an update of the Wright Flyer.

    Here's another: "Apple has nothing it could possibly replace it
with. There is no new idea out there short of a talking computer. And
the technology for the talking computer is decades away."

    Hello?  Macs have been talking since 1996.  If he means speech
recognition, then use the correct term.  Macs have had basic speech
recognition since 1996, also.  It's certainly not any kind of "new
idea".  How about actually using the computer every now and then,
instead of just making crap up.

    Besides, if he'd bother to read the damn press releases, he'd know
that Apple's current strategy is the "digital hub".  They've had
plenty of new hardware and software products in this area to fulfill
that strategy, and it's working well.  It must be working, since
Microsoft is now copying them.

    Dvorak is a moron.

    Regards,

    - Lou Forlini
      Software Engineer
      System Support Products, Inc.