J. van de Griek" wrote:
How hard could it be to convince them to give you some funding?
> >
> Quite hard. It would still be rather difficult to make a device as powerful
> and versatile as the Newton and make it as small as the Palm. And size does
> matter in the case of PDAs. Plus, Palm has the market already.
>
For all it's worth, I communicated with a Newton developer and asked how
difficult it'd be to shrink the Newton into a more Palm sized device.
He said that it could be done with the loss of some features, but that
it'd still be far ahead of the Palm. He said that with a stronger
processor (am I getting my terminology correct here?) inside a smaller
body like the Palm, that producing such a device is not out of the
question. The matter is, as you all have said, is timing and know how
and capital. People from Hawaii would probably think it was just
another annoying mainland device that'd invade paradise with the next
wave of "fudgies". People from Indiana would probably not even notice.
I bet it could be done with the right people.
However, you must realize, of course, this comes from the twisted, sick
and terrible mind of a very, very bad, ugly American Dog.
Woof!
All a hooser from Canada can add is- "eh?" But I wonder why no one can get a straight answer from Apple. Is there any 'statute of limitations' on their software / hardware? Will Steve bring back a Newt based PDA? Is a bear Catholic? Does the Pope......ahhh, never mind... (oh ya, and -I AM CANADIAN!)
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