I think the fact that Mr. coursey lumped all Newtons together
doesn't help. Anyone in the Newton camp for any length of time knows
that the MP 130 probably should've been the first production unit, at
least from a functional standpoint, but hindsight blurs the reality a
bit. We say this in a day when backlit color displays are becoming the
norm. To say Newton is a turkey from a sales success standpoint is true.
Apple's fault for that.....mostly. If Mr. Coursey knew what he was
talking about, he might've said Newton 1.0, and followed with the
improved version 2.0 comments to denote that it wasn't a flop, but a
developing technology ahead of its time. Now before I incur the wrath of
the 1.x users, I have: Sharp PI 7000, (clear) MP 110, MP 130, and MP
2000. Apple sucked bigtime in the marketing dept. The only reason I knew
about Newts was the fact that I was also discovering Macs at the time,
so my head was in all the magazines I could find. Now, from a different
angle, my experience with Macs started at system 7.1. If I saw a system
6 setup, I might say it was a turkey (based on my experience with
systems 7 and up). If Mr. Coursey were to play with system 6 or prior
and say Mac was a turkey, I imagine he'd see the same sort of backlash,
because generalizing is not fair in the overall scheme. Did he happen to
mention PocketPC? It's pretty much in the same deal now. Mr. Coursey was
wrong to call Newton a turkey. I'm NOT taking his side on the matter.
His opinions are uninformed, as far as I can tell. At the very least he
should've said a it was a sales turkey with great technological
potential.
Proud, enduring Newton user,
Tim
-- This is the Newtontalk mailinglist - http://www.newtontalk.net To unsubscribe or manage: visit the above link or mailto:newtontalk-request_at_newtontalk.net?Subject=unsubscribe
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Sat Dec 01 2001 - 20:03:51 EST