I just got finished reading the Feb 11th issue of
eweek, and John Taschek's Infrastructure article
titled "Gadgets have taken over the world" makes the
following statement:
"...but clearly everyone's going to be packing PC
power in their pockets and pocketbooks in the near
future"
This exactly contradicts $J's assessment of PDAs in
where he claims to see no future in the devices. And
if the above statement is found to be true, then Apple
will be the only computing player in the tech market
without a Personal sized computing platform.
As a matter of fact, if Apple doesn't have plans for
such a device at this point in time, and waits to see
what the market will develop, then it will be too late
and any attempt by Apple to play "catch-up" will fail
miserably as they attempt to sway market share away
from the already soon to be entrenched established
players of WinCE and Palm.
Ed
web/gadget guru
http://newton.tek-ed.com (download Newton packages)
http://65.84.243.167 (my NPDS server)
--- David Orriss Jr <dave_at_davenet.net> wrote:
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> The numbers I've read are that Apple sold roughly
> 800,000 newtons during
> the lifetime of the product. The majority of them
> were MP2x00 unit. That
> number is probably higher because apple was actually
> selling brand new
> newtons until 1999 (due to contractual obligations
> with various companies).
>
> Why *exactly* Steve killed the Newton is anyone's
> guess. I'm willing to
> bet it was a combination of "he didn't invent it"
> with the fact that only
> the 2k series became "marginally profitable" (to
> quote Woz). Boils down to
> simple $$$ I'm sure.
>
> I also remember someone talking on smaller.com about
> the simple fact that
> *everyone* left Apple that had significant knowledge
> about the
> Newton. They (almost) all went to Palm! I've heard
> that SJ had expressed
> interest in doing something with the Newton
> technology to make it
> profitable but that the knowledgebase to do that had
> left and *that* was
> why he killed it.
>
> Let's be realistic.. any guy who's willing to put an
> ATI card in a computer
> for resale has *got* to be focused primarily on
> making a buck... ;)
>
> At 02:00 PM 2/13/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>
> >Hey -
> >
> >Seeing as how Apple now publishes numbers of iMacs,
> >iBooks, Powerbooks, iPods, G4s sold each quarter in
> >their quarterly report, does anyone have access to
> the
> >historic sales numbers for the Newt over its years
> of
> >production?
>
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