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Call me a skeptic, but I don't see this bubble growing to the point of the initial dot-com bubble. I mean, can you really imagine the stock market going crazy over a bunch of IPOs of Facebook clones? Sure, there are a lot of crappy ideas getting funding right now just because they say "social networking" or "user generated content" in their business plans, but it takes more than new sites being launched to make a bubble.

The interesting thing about these types of sites is that it's really easy to see if they're going to take off relatively soon. If a site doesn't have any users, it doesn't have any content and is therefore useless. If it's loaded with people, then it'll be successful. No one is going to get excited about an IPO of a mediocre site with 250 users. Go back to complaining about the iPhone, Dvorak. [PC Mag]

He also says he's going to recommend the Mac platform to friends and family when they ask for computer advice in order to not have to tech support them when they don't keep their computers clean of viruses and spyware—something we're intimately familiar with ourselves. In the end, he says he won't switch to a Mac (understandable), but says the differences between Macs and PCs are very minor, save for usability. Sounds pretty level headed to me. [PCMag]

Hitler comparisons aside, John's basing at least part of his hatred on the iPhone on his two buddies who talk about the iPhone nonstop (not me, unfortunately). But most of his diatribe is directed toward the media, who are covering the crap out of the iPhone because 1) there's no other news, and 2) the iPhone is the news. That, and because he wants more pageviews.

Shut Up About the iPhone, Already! [PCMag]

According to mystery Cingular man, "there's lots of issues" with the phone and the interface screws up all the time. The battery part I'll buy. The fact that the interface screws up all the time, meh, it doesn't sound very Apple-y, but if true that means they got about two months to get things straight. – Louis Ramirez

Dvorak: iPhone Battery Dead After 40 Minutes [The Apple Blog via GearFuse]

The Cranky Geek makes a good point that Apple's past successes have been in emerging markets. He goes on to say that to use the patented Apple flashy design and jazzy advertising in an extremely robust cellphone market may not work so well and will end up hurting Apple's reputation. If you recall, Apple hasn't had a true flop for quite some time and the iPhone may be just what the doctor ordered. Dvorak still shows love for Apple, though. He would rather see the iPhone as a "reference design" created by Apple and dumped onto another sucker willing to tackle it, like Samsung, he suggests.

Good luck, Apple. Dvorak and I think you will need it. Now pardon me while I go skipping down the street, hand-in-hand, with my eternal lover, John C. Hudson Dvorak. –Travis Hudson

Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone [MarketWatch]

Dvorak was on the varsity bowling team at Berkeley (they disbanded by the time I got there, fifty years later) and enjoys Wii sports for its realism. You wouldn't think that a bowling game with cartoonish Miis would have realism, but Dvorak attests to it.

In the end, he says the novel control scheme will be enough to make Wii a revolution. We just hope he takes care of that sore shoulder by the time we're on his show next. – Jason Chen

Ode to the Wii [PC Mag]

We're going to be talking about topics ranging from the PS3 not being in production yet, to Apple firing its own workers for downloading Leopard off the internet. All stuff we talk about here on the Giz. Our buddy Nick Douglas from Valleywag was on the show back in June. Watch tomorrow as I chat it up with three guys twice my age. – Jason Chen

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