I can barely spell, but John C. Dvorak is a bloody sensationalist wanker.

The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University, who wrote to me convinced that the process had already begun. I was amused, but after mulling over various coincidences, I’m convinced he may be right.

Column from PC Magazine: Will Apple Adopt Windows?

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  1. FireRabbit Says: February 19th, 2006 at 7:02 am

    http://dvorakisnuts.org/

  • Don Says: February 27th, 2006 at 5:58 pm

    Who cares what Devorak and this prof. at Rutgers thinks? I stopped reading Dvorak years ago, his articles haven’t had any relevance in years, he’s always wrong about Apple and has been perdicting Apple’s demise since the 80s. How much more wrong do you have to be to start being pointless and ignored.
    The statment should be “Is Dell and HP going to adopt the MacOS?
    Stop getting worked up over these bumpkins, that have nothing better to do than to create articles that say absoulutely nothing about anything, and convince Apple to go head to head with MS, lets see which OS people prefer if they have the choice…

  • Ron Says: February 27th, 2006 at 9:43 pm

    True most people would prefer MacOS its easy and simple, I mean from a pro stand off point of view its a no go due to it clammy bubbly GUI and lack of program’s support for it. Don’t forget vista will bring a bit of style back to windows. By the way that “Is Dell and HP going to adopt the MacOS?” is just as stupid as what Devorak said.

  • darnell Says: February 28th, 2006 at 2:50 am

    >>By the way that “Is Dell and HP going to adopt the MacOS?” is just as stupid as what Devorak said.

    except the fact that HP-Compaq (?) ceo said they’d support Mac OS X if it was opened up to other manufacturers.

    Dvorak’s been baiting Mac people for at least 10 years. It’s shock-jock tech. journalism & it always provides the needed hits to bump website popularity for a given time. It’s like a sweeps-week move, nothing more.

    I’m a mac-user, but it boggles the mind how quick mac people take the bait. If anything, it shows the growth of new mac-users, because otherwise there’d be no outrage (we’ve heard it all before f/dvorak).

  • i386 Says: February 28th, 2006 at 8:03 am

    You can listen to “TWiT” with Dvorak here and his ramblings about the macos to windows transition. What an ass.

  • i386 Says: February 28th, 2006 at 8:23 am

    Apple has put WAY too much effort into the System 10 platform to even consider making “the switch”. Even if a switch was in order, I doubt Steve’s ego would even allow him to start using Windows as the Apple Computer OS.

    Besides, the money isn’t really in hardware - its in the software. Hardware you can sell once but software you can sell again and again. Besides - think about all of Apples products that compete head to head with Microsoft products. The whole thing is lunacy.

    I’m starting to listen to TWiT on a regular basis now. Just for Dvorak. Ironic that the show is hosted on AOL Radio…. ;)

  • James Anderson Says: February 28th, 2006 at 12:22 pm

    The real money here is not in selling Apple hardware that will run Windows, but in selling Apple software that will run on the 200M+ PCs out there today. At $300 a copy you’re looking at $60 billion if everybody switched. Of course, that’s completely unrealistic, but imagine if only 10% switched? A piece of software that Apple has already developed could fetch them an additional $6 billion, plus upgrades every 2-3 years. Cha-ching!!!

    Apple is in a better position to compete with Windows than any other OS has ever been. I don’t think Linux will ever be able to steal much market share from the desktop space, because it’s horribly fragmented by all the different distributions out there and most non-technical users don’t understand that– they don’t know the difference between a kernal and a distribution. I’ve never owned an Apple computer in my life, but if I could buy Mac OSX for my P4 for a price comparable to WinXP I sure as hell would fork over the $ just to see why everyone loves it so much.

    Apple has made stupendous blunders before, the biggest one being their overpricing the Mac in the mid-80s and basically handing the market to Intel, IBM and Microsoft, so it isn’t beyond the realm of possibility that Steve Jobs is only thinking about hardware here, but I am hoping that they learned something from the past 20 years. In fact, I’ve bought stock in Apple for the first time ever, because they’re truly poised to make a fortune here.

  • David Field Says: February 28th, 2006 at 12:36 pm

    James Anderson has his figures wrong. There are 200 million plus PCs sold Every Year, and there are about a billion in use.

    If all the Macs sold were sold to switchers, and none were sold to returning Mac buyers, then the switching rate would be six in 200, or 3 percent. Since people boast of replacing a Mac, that 3 percent is way too high.

    So, nobody switches, but Dvorak is still wrong.

  • eu/NEKE Says: March 2nd, 2006 at 2:30 pm

    Hey james, you’re famous =]

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