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 dont want one of these new fangled devices.
In 2006, Nokia discontinued their 7710 touchscreen smartphone and shut down the majority of R&D related to touchscreen interfaces, because market research indicated that people just don't want them.
A year later, they were scrambling to figure out how to compete in the redefined touchscreen phone market.
The mouse is better for things that are primarily spatial, while the keyboard is better for things that can be expressed symbolically (with language). We're not having this discussion right now by pointing at word boxes on the screen and clicking, are we?
Depends on what you mean by every thing else. For playing Quake you need a mouse and something like a keyboard. For Super Mario, I prefer a joy pad. For interacting with a windowmanager, XMonad shows that a keyboard interface can be quite productive. A CAD program will benefit from a mouse.
Submitter made an error, mashing together the original title, "Jan. 1984: How critics reviewed the Mac", with the name of the blog/column, "Apple 2.0".
Yes. I liked Macs starting in 1988 or so. I fell out of love sometime around system 8, and spent many happy years with Unix variants. But OSX brought me back.
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 dont want one of these new fangled devices.