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Jason Snell
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15. Oct 21, 2005 3:58 PM in response to: leicaman
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
By the way, if I ever wrote a story for CARS (with some help from Phil), I'd never, ever, ever, ever admit it.

Jason Snell, Editorial Director, Macworld
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makinwaves
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16. Oct 21, 2005 4:08 PM in response to: Jason Snell
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
If Apple is such an "inferior company" just what in the Hell does that make Microsoft???
The windows operating system is, and continues to be a joke!

When is the last time you ever heard anyone say "I love my PC"

Give me a break!
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17. Oct 21, 2005 4:15 PM in response to: makinwaves
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
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Give me a break!

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So did you miss both the "fake news wire" and "Imaginary News Service" bits? Or are you seriously getting enraged over made-up quotes in a fake news story?

Jason Snell, Editorial Director, Macworld
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18. Oct 21, 2005 5:15 PM in response to: Jason Snell
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
What Dvorak fails to mention is that there isn't much coverage of Macintosh computers. All of the press is about iPod/iTunes, a completely different platform. Microsoft doesn't really have anything that competes in that area (at least at that level), so there isn't any reason to cover Microsoft.
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tybowen
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19. Oct 21, 2005 6:04 PM in response to: drillbo
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
Hilarious.
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mm2270
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20. Oct 21, 2005 8:01 PM in response to: Macworld.com
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
Awesome! I don't know about anyone else, but I'm especially excited about the low-calorie dessert that doesnt let you down in the flavor department. I've been waiting for something like that for ages! If anyone can do it, Apple can. I hope that rumor pans out to be true. Come on Apple, don't let us down!
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HiRez
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21. Oct 21, 2005 10:00 PM in response to: Macworld.com
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
John C. Dvorak wrote:
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I often confront these guys with this assertion, and they, to a man (I've never confronted a female reporter about this), all say that they use a Mac "because it is better." Right. And that attitude doesn't affect coverage now, does it?

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So lets see, I guess these reporters should lie and say MS products are wonderful when they really know they're inferior? That's exactly the kind of shoveled mediocrity that got MS its dominance in the first place! "Let's see, Mac has a cursor...and Windows has a cursor. Mac has a menu and so does Windows. Mac has scrollbars and a trash can and so does Windows. Therefore they're pretty much the same, might as well choose the one that's $50 cheaper." I wish I could be infuriated by Dvorak but I know the truth is that he just spouts off one of these ridiculous articles to inflame the passions and generate hits on his website when ratings start going down. I guess it worked since I read it.
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Nobody
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22. Oct 22, 2005 2:00 AM in response to: Macworld.com
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
Um, maybe not as splashy as the 1st two events, but doesn't Apple have something planned 10/25 in Australia, potentially the iTunes Music Store for that country...? I mean, they did host an Olympics, and they gave us Men At Work and Kylie Minogue... Don't they deserve some love from Apple...? =)
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23. Oct 22, 2005 5:01 AM in response to: macFanDave
Re: Next Apple event.: Postcard with checkered fl
Plenty of computer company sponsorship in F1. HP (though this is their last year with William), AMD with Ferrari and partnering with the FIA, Intel potentially with McLaren, and rumours of Adobe with Honda.

But I get the joke. Sponsoring Nascar would indeed be just that.
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Nobody
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24. Oct 22, 2005 8:16 AM in response to: Nobody
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
We dun bin gittin' plenty o' luvin already!

Hmmm mmm! Gi me sum mo o dat Apple pie!
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mdawson
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25. Oct 22, 2005 11:04 AM in response to: Macworld.com
FUD: A Dvorak Rant.
Does this mans BS ever stop? Dvoraks article is nothing more than sour grapes over the fact that Jobs has turned Apple around and people are taking notice. Microsoft has rested on its laurels for far too long and the company that is incapable of creating a single original productevery Microsoft application it either an aped version of something done well elsewhere or software that Microsoft acquired). Dvorak uses the weak argument that the predominantly Mac-using press is biased toward Apple, yet he fails to acknowledge the fact that this same press spent the better part of the past decade lambasting Apple and consistently reporting on its imminent demise.
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In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer.

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Such a blatantly false statement is typical Dvorkian bilge. Mac users have no problem using Windows excepting the need to learn their way around a number of nonsensical, unintuitive locations or naming for a number of features in Windows. There is almost no Mac user that has not had to familiarize themselves with the Windows operating system. It is Windows users that have an issue using the Mac OS despite the fact that much of what is in Windows was hijacked from the Mac OS. As I stated in a post on another topic not too long ago, the fact that people fail or refuse to do things the simpler or more intuitive way because they are accustomed to doing things the hard way does not make the hard way easy or better.
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Microsoft can roll out a dozen cool products, and the media goes ga-ga over the video iPoda rather late-to-market Apple product.

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Oh, Microsoft can. Yet they have never done so even when the press was avidly anti-Mac. When Apple faced its darkest days the PC press consistently had Dont Upgrade, New Windows Incompatibilities, 1000s of Known Bugs articles every time a new version of Windows was released. I have never seen this occur wholesale in the Mac press and the reason has to do with attention to design not fawning over Apple. As to the iPod, it may not have been the first portable digital music player on the market, but Apple obviously did it better than everyone else as far as consumers are concerned. Coming to market first is irrelevant if your product does not set the standard. Gates undercut Jobs in releasing Windows 1.0 before the Mac was publicly announced, but it took over a decade for Microsoft to come even close to getting a GUI-based operating system right. Apple did not have the first GUI, but compared to everyone else, Apple does it right. And that fact has been confirmed by journalists that have no vested interest in tooting Apples horn like ars Technica.

How is it that someone that is wrong as much as Dvorak is still has a job?


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26. Oct 22, 2005 11:16 AM in response to: macFanDave
Re: Next Apple event.: Postcard with checkered flag,
NASCAR fans are notoriously loyal to the brand(s) that sponsors their favorite driver(s). If Apple were to sponsor a NASCAR driver you can bet there would be a large jump in sales that could be directly attributed to the sponsorship.

Just because the fans of stock car racing are stereotyped as hicks doesn't mean they don't have money or that they don't spend that money on technology.
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rspress
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27. Oct 22, 2005 12:13 PM in response to: Macworld.com
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
Let's see, Apple could release 10.4.3 anytime now. They could release those "exclusive" dotmac widgets they said were "coming soon" six months ago. They could treat all iPod users as equals and not treat someone who bought an iPod six months ago as a leper, they could do this by updating older iPods with some of the newer features like a podcast menu item on the main menu. Hello Apple, ipodlinux are making your programmers look lazy and slightly retarded. Did I forget anything?
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macnuke
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28. Oct 22, 2005 12:13 PM in response to: Jason Snell
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
NASCZARS?
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prolix1
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29. Oct 22, 2005 1:31 PM in response to: Macworld.com
Re: Editors' Notes Weblog: What's next for Apple?
Somebody should get crybaby John Dvorak an extra large crying towel.

Criminy, John - face it, Micro$oft and Bill Gates have never, e-v-e-r had a new, original innovative idea - they simply "borrowed" from others and claimed it was their own (see the towering stack of lawsuits claiming M$ ripped 'em off).

Now Jobs and company are moving too fast in the spotlight for Gates and his knuckleheaded, flat-footed henchmen to grab a piece.

John? Where, oh where is Longhorn? Buwhahahahahahahaha!!!!!
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