“[O]ver time, I have come to realize that I was right about the iPhone and the smartphone in general. It has become a plague on humanity and a general annoyance. The iWatch will be worse.”

—  John C. Dvorak

An Open Letter to Apple: No iWatch, Please! http://pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2460598,00.asp in PC Magazine (9 July 2014)
2010s

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