| Wednesday, June 19, 2002 |
14:50 - Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
http://www.thinksecret.com/features/jaguarscannersupport.html
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OS-level scanner driving in Jaguar! Hot damn!
Meanwhile, John C. Dvorak in PC Magazine says that Apple hasn't had an original idea since 1984, and should be exterminated.
(Or maybe that Apple should discontinue the Macintosh and "replace it with something new". Uh... what, so now what you're bitching about is the name? What the hell would constitute a "new computer that is not a Mac"? Something with entirely new hardware, running an entirely new operating system? Uh... 'scuse me, how is that different from the current Macs running OS X?
Wait-- maybe he's saying Apple should stop making proprietary computers, port OS X to Intel, and sell beige boxes. That'd sure be revolutionary. Or maybe he's one of those forward-thinking pundits who thinks Apple should be liquidated, its assets sold to the stockholders, and its intellectual property thrown into a dump (it's no good anyway, is it? After all, if it was any good, wouldn't Apple be the majority player?) Oh, I know. Maybe he thinks Apple should do something totally unprecedented, like a PDA. Everybody likes PDAs! Or maybe a tablet PC with a telepathic interface. Or a teleporter. Anything-- by Christ, we've got to do something! Every day Apple makes computers, they're setting the world's technological frontiers back another two weeks! Nahh, that can't be it. He probably thinks Apple should become a pure software maker, or possibly an Internet portal, serving e-mail and news and weather and sports scores. From there it's only a skip and a jump to being one of those random penny-stock companies juggled around by anonymous German investors, the niche they so richly deserve.
He's positive that now that Apple has released the new iMac (which he calls "I-Mac"), there's nothing else they could possibly do to follow it up with.
Is there any wonder why I have no interest in being part of a community where people like Dvorak are seen as "visionary"?)
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