Re: [NTLK] [OT] New iPhones/iPhone OS 3.0

Hello,

--- On Sat, 6/13/09, Steven Scotten <splicer@paroxysm.com> wrote:

> You wrote that the Newton was "groundbreaking" and almost
> in the same breath claimed that Apple doesn't get "honor" for that.

This is what I said:

>Again, I'm not arguing that what Apple did with the PDA was not >groundbreaking. Merely that they were not first to market with a PDA >device and that honor lies with another company.

Can you kindly not put words into my mouth? I would appreciate that.

I said the above because, as near as I can make out, the Newton was not, in fact, the first PDA to market. Of course, if you have evidence to the contrary, I'm perfectly willing to listen to it.

But if you'll pardon my saying so, I don't appreciate someone taking two words out of two complete sentences of a total of thirty-three words, quoting those two words out of context, and attempting to make me appear to say something that I never actually said.

> I'm playing Devils Advocate to some degree here,

Yes, I rather noticed that. ¬ _¬

I think we might be able to agree that the Newton was the first *practical* PDA to be made available. The same could be argued for the iPod: it was the first MP3 player that caught the imagination of the public at large.

But the iPod's runaway success doesn't change the fact that Apple did not invent the MP3 player. And the historical record seems to indicate that Apple was not the first to market a PDA, either, but that they are very closely associated with the PDA concept (and rightly so).

Best,

James Fraser

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