Jeff Knee, at home (jdknee@ufl.edu) wrote:
> I, for one, read between the lines in a very recent BusinessWeek cover
> story and interview with Steve Jobs. He said Apple has a lot of cool
> things in the pipeline for next year, to start.
Fine, so he knows what stock holders and Mac users want to hear. What
else does this imply?
> Together with the Newton-like features in MacOS X -- and the fact that X
> may be too big for a PDA, an appliance or set-top box -- I read this
> interview to mean Apple will be bringing back Newton features, if not a
> new Newton itself.
There are _no_ Newton-like features in Mac OS X, just superficial stuff
like the "puff of smoke" (which, incidentally, is a case of bad UI
design: the "puff of smoke" does not indicate, as it does on a Newton,
that something has been deleted, but just that some symbol was removed
from the Dock. The smoke is hiding what's really going on). Someone
mentioned the Dock as being borrowed from the Newton (the button bar in
Newton OS 2.1, I presume), but of course the Dock has been a feature of
NeXTStep since 1989 or so. The Rosetta recognizer as a largely
independent module within Newton OS may or may not be integrated into Mac
OS X, but HWR doesn't make a Mac OS X device a Newton. A Newton without
HWR, on the other hand, can still be quite useful (I don't use HWR much
on my eMate).
Michael J. Hussmann
Redaktion macmagazin
MACup Verlag GmbH
Leverkusenstrasse 54 VII
D-22761 Hamburg
Germany
E-Mail: michael@macmagazin.de
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