Obviously the people at ABC still have the impression that Newton = Original
MessagePad and have not tried the 2x00 models. The poor sods.
In any case, I'm beginning to question journalism today. Many journalists
these days tennd to be very ill-informed and biased with their writing. And
they obviously have no sense of comparison. Newton = PDA, and Palm = PDA,
therefore they can be compared? huh? What happened to comparing apples (no
pun intended) and apples? The Newton is obviously able to do so much more (I
still get a big kick out of running my MP2100 as a mobile web server using
NPDS and impressing the hell out of my Palm-toting buddies) than the Palm
and should be given due credit. Price-wise, by the time one outfits the Palm
with a 33.6 modem and a keyboard, it would appear to be qite comparable to a
Newton. Besides, the Newton has PCMCIA slots with which I can add memory, a
network card (modem or ethernet) or a GPS system.
I do own a Palm and I know what it can and cannot do. That's why my trusty
Newt's still my main machine for REAL work. The Palm handles the little
things like appointments and phone numbers :)
Kenneth
----- Original Message -----
From: "brd" <vwbrd@bigfoot.com>
To: "newtontalk" <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 1:24 AM
Subject: NTLK abcnews.com article
> abcnews.com has an article about palm today. I was just thrilled to see
> newtons mentioned, albeit not in a very flattering manner:
>
>
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/business/TheStreet/palmmarket_000418.html
>
>
> Pocket-sized computers are nothing new. The
> paperback-sized Newton electronic notepad, which
> allowed users to store contact information and sending
> short text messages, was introduced amid huge fanfare in
> 1993 by John Sculley, then Apple's chief executive.
> The Newton was lampooned for its attempts at
> translating users' handwriting and its hefty $1,000 price
> tag; Apple scrapped the project in March 1998.
>
> Laters,
> Brian
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