Dvorak now pro-Apple?
Speaking of crufty, does anyone else remember when Dvorak used to make his guest spots on The ScreenSavers, snidely condemning all things Apple as a wasted computer path that only fools would follow? See both here and here for more of the same. Well, it looks like he's changing his song. In this article about the missing buzz surrounding the announcement of Windows Vista, Dvorak has a sub-heading (bolded and all caps) near the bottom of the first page that reads: "THE FUTURE OF DESKTOP COMPUTING." The first 'sentence' that starts that section? "Apple."
Dvorak then goes on to prognosticate: "Once the new Mac OS appears next year it will gravitate toward the existing x86 community much more rapidly than anticipated unless Apple does some incredibly dumb things to stop it. Personally I cannot see what they can do or why they'd want to stop it." He then goes on to discuss where he sees Windows, Linux, and even Google moving in this space. It's an interesting read, but fully conjectural. I'd like to see things go this route, but I'm willing to bet that if Apple does have any slip-ups along the way, Dvorak will suddenly flop back over to his old song and crucify Jobs et al. with glee.