[NTLK] iPhone is not the new Newton (& announcing a Newtsell-off shortly)

[mdsf]

> This "Jobs killed the Newton because Scully liked it" is an urban legend. 
> When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, he was faced with a company in a very 
> bad >financial shape, bleeding money in too many projects that were not 
> focussed on the main Apple product: the Macintosh line of computers. So he 
> started >cutting off everything that at the time was not centered on the 
> Mac and everything that wasn't helping Apple make money. It pains me to 
> even write this, >but the Newton, at the time, was a financial dead 
> weight.

Excuse me but the Newton was days away from being spun off into a separate 
company.  It was going to be independent of Apple (do or die).  Jobs' ego 
definitely had something to do with the demise of the Newton.