From: Chet Johns (cjohns_at_mac.com)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 10:40:44 PST
It seems odd that almost all of the stinkers have evolved a following and
are almost all collectors items. I recently read an article in a PC magazine
that the newton, cube, TAM and powerbook 5300 are all considered triumphs
in computer design and functionality and each have their own following.
Sorry no mention of pippin or macintosh TV in that article. It seems odd
that these praises would end up in a pc article acknowledging the
contributions of apple to computing and would then be slammed in an apple
journal. The main point of the article was that without apple and the mac we
would still be typing on a plain text screen with 64kb memory and no mouse.
-Chet Johns
> I just received the Special Collector's Edition (Jan 2004) of
> MacAddict, celebrating 20 years of the Mac. In their review of Mac
> history, they list "the keepers" and "the stinkers". You've guessed it
> ... they labeled our green friend as a "stinker".
>
> Entitled, "Newton 1993-1998" they write, " Newton was apple's first
> attempt at a PDA. Main problem: Its handwriting recognition was
> abysmal. So bad, in fact, that it was lampooned in Doonesbury --- and
> in an episode of The Simpsons, the Newton misinterpreted 'beat up
> Martin' as 'eat up Martha.' Newton signified the shortsightedness of
> Apple's management, which pushed the device into the world before it
> was ready. Had it waited until it fixed the Newton's problems, Apple
> may have been at the forefront of the PDA market from the beginning."
>
> They lumped the Newton with these other "stinkers": the Macintosh
> Portable, Macintosh TV, PowerBook 5300, Pippin, 20th Anniversary
> Macintosh, and the G4 Cube.
>
> Patrick Jendraszak
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