John C. Dvorak: Doing

“One thing that always bothers me is the attention the iPhone camera gets. The latest will have image stabilization, advanced phase focus, 4K video, 60 fps video, 240 fps slo-mo, and all sorts of features. That said — these are still just pinhole cameras on steroids. The only good thing they do is allow citizens to take more and more videos of crimes.”

John C. Dvorak

Apple's Travesty of a 'Live' Event http://pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2468228,00.asp in PC Magazine (9 September 2014)
2010s

“When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, I see that the System Idle Process is hogging all the resources and chewing up 95 percent of the processor's cycles. Doing what? Doing nothing?”

John C. Dvorak

"XP Decay" in PC Magazine (9 September 2003) https://web.archive.org/web/20031002013012/http://www.pcmag.com/article2/1,4149,1304348,00.asp
2000s

“If [Apple] is smart it will call the iPhone a "reference design" and pass it to some suckers to build with someone else's marketing budget. Then it can wash its hands of any marketplace failures. It should do that immediately before it's too late.”

John C. Dvorak

"Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone" in MarketWatch (28 March 2007) http://www.marketwatch.com/story/apple-should-pull-the-plug-on-the-iphone
2000s

Failure

“Nobody can deny that Apple is fashionable, and most iPhone users buy the newest so they can be fashionable. To do this right, Apple needs a new phone every quarter.”

John C. Dvorak

Giddyup, Apple! http://pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2406546,00.asp in PC Magazine (29 June 2012)
2010s

Fashion

“The AmigaOS remains one of the great operating systems of the past 20 years, incorporating a small kernel and tremendous multitasking capabilities the likes of which have only recently been developed in OS/2 and Windows NT. The biggest difference is that the AmigaOS could operate fully and multitask in as little as 250K of address space. Even today, the OS is only about 1MB in size. And to this day, there is very little a memory-hogging CD-ROM-loading OS can do the Amiga can't. Tight code - there's nothing like it. I've had an Amiga for maybe a decade. It's the single most reliable piece of equipment I've ever owned. You can easily understand why so many fanatics are out there wondering why they are alone in their love of the thing. The Amiga continues to inspire a vibrant - albeit cultlike - not unlike which you have with Linux, the Unix clone.”

John C. Dvorak

"Inside Track", PC Magazine (22 October 1996)
1980s & 1990s

Love , Understanding , Memory , Past

“Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores … [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful.”

John C. Dvorak

"Microsoft Retail Stores Will Rival Apple Stores" in PC Magazine (3 October 2012) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2410537,00.asp
2010s

Success , Holiday