[NTLK] Apple Newton at the Museum Of Failure

[Gene beaird]

Indeed.  It only ‘failed’ because Apple was floundering at the time and Teh Steve didn’t like the thing, so had the project cancelled.  IMHO, with the 2001, it was _almost_ there, and would have probably been really good with an update with a faster CPU and a bit more memory.  

But we have Macintoshes to sell and iPhones to develop, amiright?  :-)

Regards,

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas


> On Jan 20, 2024, at 2:00 PM, newtontalk-request at newtontalk.net wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:39:15 -0700
> From: Grant Hutchinson <splorp at mac.com>
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>>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024, 9:47?AM Alexander Shendi wrote:
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>>> Apple Newton at the Museum Of Failure:
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>> On Jan 19, 2024, at 12:41 PM, Michael Sheflin <sheflinm at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I saw this there a few months ago, but I'm pretty sure the display model
>> was a 120 or 130.  (I snapped a pic of the Minitel but not the Newton.)
>> But it wasn't an OMP.
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> Sigh.
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> It didn?t fail. It was deliberately killed.
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> If the Newton had truly ?failed?, we certainly would not be still talking about it decades later.
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> g.
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