Comments on: Old Man Dvorak says ‘the Google phone is doomed’

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:07:51 +0000

Hey dan, have you ever tried 1-800-info-fast they are similar to goog 411 but they use live operators? Much more convienient. Humans understand you more than those computers you have to talk to. For example i was at the bar the other night and i needed a taxi i called 1800-info-fast and just asked them to connect me with a local cab. Just like that i was connected with yellow cab. This is interesting because i didn’t ask for a specific company. So the next day i called and asked them to find me an escort service i was kidding of course but they actually found me one. Funny huh they can find anything. anyway thats my 2 cents i like 1800-info-fast the best.

By: Mark Hughes

Mark Hughes — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 05:19:26 +0000

Dvorak is just a troll. He gets paid based on page-views of his latest screeds. He’s long past his sell-by date, and can no longer make a living by writing something intelligent, so he has to go the circus freak route. The more ridiculous and insane he acts, the more page-views he gets, and the more he gets paid.

Linking to him just reinforces his behavior. Just ignore him, and he’ll go broke and die on the streets like any other crazy homeless person.

By: Jacob Romeyn

Jacob Romeyn — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:38:03 +0000

Here is the reason why it will be unsuccessful:

If Microsoft takes the effort to belittle it.

Windows: Why is everyone paying so much attention to this dumb press release?
“Their efforts are just some words on paper right now, it’s hard to do a very clear comparison [with Windows Mobile]” — Steve Balmer, CEO of Microsoft,

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 14:25:29 +0000

Don’t people know about about Goog411! With Goog411, you can essentially do a search with your phone w/o it being web-enabled because all you do is call a toll-free number. So all you need is a regular phone, not some fancy web-enable phone.

Honestly, if it weren’t for Goog411, the Google Phone would have been more important or useful.

Just my 2 cents.

-Dan

By: Pope

Pope — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 03:00:46 +0000

Got to admit, that Dvorak is going to be right about the Google software. Google wants to put ads on everything and your phone is not the place that you will allow this. Anything that slows you down from doing your business will be tossed aside.

By: Richard Chapman

Richard Chapman — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:37:52 +0000

The words you quoted came from a man who railed against that Newfangled blogging sensation back in 2003. I used to like to read JCD’s work back in the early days. But he’s not relevant anymore and I think he knows it. It’s kind of sad really. He did some good work in his day but now he seems to be looking for the easy pickings, which is usually something related to Open Source. I strongly suspect that he doesn’t take his own posts seriously. When he retires I suppose he’ll write a book detailing all the fast ones he pulled over us. And he’ll giggle to himself as he snaps a few pictures from his porch.

By: Travis

Travis — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 19:00:17 +0000

I think Dvorak might be right, but not for the asinine reasons he stated. To me, this will be Google’s hardest fight. They’ll have to get the hardware companies that have spent a ton of money on their own UI to drop it and move over. Thats only going to happen if there are enough programs for google to make people seek them out, and they start to loose money.

Google isn’t flawless anymore either. They aren’t the underdog fighting the good fight. People are questioning if google still goes by their “don’t be evil” slogan.