Re: [NTLK] Manipulation of stats

From: Joel M. Sciamma (joelsciamma_at_compuserve.com)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 14:18:41 EST


Sushi,

> Because some of us would like to see a new Apple PDA!

Are you sure?

The last few years has seen Apple producing some of the poorest software I
can remember and their committment to usability and resource efficiency is
at an all time low.

If they were to launch a PDA and it turned out to have a crummy interface,
badly designed applications and be critically dependent on a host Mac, where
would that have got us?

Even worse, it could be some cut-down OS X with files and all that legacy
stuff to contend with.

I actually doubt that Apple has the capacity to make a good effort of
something as subtle as a PDA at the moment. Those days are gone, along with
the people who had the research and development skills to do it or the
leaders to sanction it.

No computer company has the faintest concept of history - it's a completely
foreign land to them, so don't expect that just becuase they have the Newton
as an example they won't start from scratch again and end up with something
that works like WinCE.

It would look very pretty though. That would probably be good enough for
Apple now :-)

Joel.

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