PC Mag Author To Android Fans: “Shoot Yourself”
Long time readers of phandroid will know that we’re not afraid to call people out. And that’s exactly what we’re doing to a Mr. John C. Dvorak who a few days ago wrote an article titled, “Cell Phone Mania Must Stop Now!”
We can understand that he’s, “sick of reading about new phones,” but how about – oh, I don’t know… NOT READING THEM. The article’s original premise doesn’t seem too horrid, until you actually read the vile hatred he spews in his pitiful words.
Following a sarcastically fictional conversation between mobile enthusiasts discussing issues such as Android being Open Source and the “Kill Switch” on Android and the iPhone, Mr. Dvorak goes on to make a recommendation to those types of people.
“Shoot Yourself.”
Keep in mind this comes from PCMag, a well respected authority in the tech world. He goes on to claim, “When someone gets hold of a new phone, the next thing you know they are all over the Net reviewing it in minute detail—as if it were a great piece of literature to be deconstructed.”
Is there a problem with being enthusiastic with something? Take a look at the publication you write for, sir. Are employees at your place of work not (such as you) not PAID to do virtually this SAME thing, albeit not necessarily in regards to the mobile industry? Seems a bit like biting the hand that feeds you, does it not?
It all became clear once I read a few more paragraphs… Mr. Dvorak is an old, grumpy man who is out of touch with today’s technology and should instead be writing for Abacus Weekly or perhaps a Retired Living magazine. Listen to what he thinks “Social Networking” means:
And what’s so special about social networking anyway? Creating a computer database of people you really don’t know and just pretend to be friends with so you can say hi once in a while? These networks are pretty flimsy, let’s face it. On a phone this is called the address book.
You, my friend, are an idiot. Had you not included that little “Shoot Yourself” comment I likely would have passed over your article as an inspired rant that many can relate to and put down your article a couple paragraphs in. Instead, you made it painfully obvious that you’re out of touch and lost, even within your own ranks at your own organization.
Unfortunately, to understand just how oblivious this guy really is, you have to read the article in full. I hate recommending this but hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do.
I have to give Mr. Dvorak credit for one of his comments which, to be honest, is accidentally genius: “But my complaints are meaningless in the grand scheme of things.”
Amend that sentence to read “My complaints are meaningless”, delete the rest of the article, republish it with a new title and I will applaud you endlessly.
[Via Very Craptastic Article]