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

Jon,
Well said. Organizer does not equal Assistant to me either. An organizer simply organizes things while an assistant intelligently helps you with your work beyond just holding your organized stuff.
Joe Reilly
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From: Jon Glass <jonglass@usa.net>

Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:27:57
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Subject: Re: [NTLK] [OT] New iPhones/iPhone OS 3.0

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Ryan Vetter<physicalconstants@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> electronic organizer = PDA
>
> Just that the ones in question were primitive PDAs.
>

I think that Sculley would take issue with that. He coined the term to
allude to a living personal assistent. And to the Newton as an
electronic/digital personal assistant. Actually, to Sculley, the
Newton MessagePad was a_dumbed down_ version of a PDA. The problem is
that people because to use this term to refer to simple electronic
organizer, but it was the Palm Pilot, specifically, that led to the
"dumbing down" of the term, to refer to an electronic organizer. For
me, however, when all this was happening, I was ust simply ignoring
all those other things, as i had my Newton, and no desire to
change--nothing could touch the Newton's intelligence, and hence, no
incentive for me to change...

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Krakow, Poland
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