San Francisco Examiner, John C. Dvorak, 19 Feb. 1984
The nature of the personal computer is simply not fully understood by companies like Apple (or anyone else for that matter). Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the why out of the equation as in why would I want this? The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a mouse. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I don't want one of these new fangled devices.
(Einar Jón)
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Þetta er Hef-næstum-alltaf-rangt-fyrir-mér-Dvorak, dálkahöfundur sem skrifar níðgreinar af merkilega litlu innsæi um nánast alla nýja tækni.
Eftir 25+ ár í bransanum hefur hann sennilega haft rétt fyrir sér í um 5-10% tilvika. Geri aðrir betur.
En mér finnst að greinin hefði átt að enda á "Now get off my lawn!"
He wasn't too influential a publicist to propagate his aversion to mice into the wider audience. ;) His profession may have been the source of his bias what the personal computer could be used for.
And a funny collection of arguments - ad hominem (arrogant), liberal tradition of thinking, mathematicized philosophy (why, equation) probably as in studying the market that is always right, argumentum ad ignorantiam - to justify what turned out to be false.
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A pointing device!