[NTLK] Apple acknowledges Newton (sorta)

Matej Horvat redjazz_slo at yahoo.com
Sat May 15 08:49:41 EDT 2010


> Yes, that's right. A button that you can easily hit on the Newton using the Stylus
> would be impossible to hit with a finger. The finger positioning is much less
> precise. At the same time, the smaller screen would make the button about half size
> on the iPhone.

I can't believe nobody has yet thought of enlarging the Newton screen on the emulator, say, to 200% of its original size, then using the scrolling gesture (two-fingered maybe?) to scroll around the Newton screen.

Wow, I should patent that :)

-Matej Horvat






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