Re: NTLK Re: Show your support for the newton

From: Mike King (mikkel@market-research.com)
Date: Tue May 02 2000 - 15:06:04 CDT


Yes, but you are missing the point: the Newton is Dead :+)

There is no point in supporting the Newton, because despite the fact that
it was ahead of its time, it is dead.

Finita la Muzika !

The Fat Lady IS singing !

Cheers

Mike :+)

At 11:16 AM 5/1/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>* Mike King <mikkel@market-research.com> on Mon, 01 May 2000
>| Voting for the Newton achieves nothing - the pace of technology has
>| already left it behind. Yes, it was way superior, and some aspects of it
>| still are, but Jobs killed it. You'd be better off sending him hate mail.
>
>Maybe you haven't been paying all that much attention, but aside from
>color, everything that Palm is finally getting today, Newton could do years
>ago, if not earlier.
>
>GPS without a cable? Had it three years ago. Wireless paging? Had it
>five years ago. Web browsers and mail clients? Had 'em three, four years
>ago. Cellular uplink? Had it two, three years ago. Audio recording and
>playback? Had it three years ago. Web *servers*? nHTTPDS is at least two
>years old.
>
>Technology is not leaving Newton behind, it is finally catching up.
>--
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