As you know Sony will present a new PDA in September. I doubt it will be
more functional than the MP2K. Maybe the new PDAman will have a MP3 module
in order to be like a walkman and of course the Newton can't do that but I
prefer a creditcard MP3 player to do this job.
What about a color screen? I doubt that Sony can give us this for a good
price. Look at the Palm IIIc price...
I have a Palm III and really it's very limited. Graffiti is good for a word
or so but not for sentences. Recently I tried to use it during a meeting in
order to jot some drawings: the screen is really a stamp-like one !
And the Newton can also be used for voice recording. The Palm can't do that
directly.
A Pocket PC from Mr Gates ? Windows CE in it's new version is not stable at
all. And Windows... my job is to fix windows problems in the PC world. At
home my iMac DV SE with ADSL Net line is my proud and joy.
So what? So I decided to buy a Newton. I surf the Net during several days
and I'm convinced this is the Rolls Royce of PDA's. Future will say if I was
in a big mistake.
Nevertheless, killing the Newton was probably the worst decision made by
Steve Jobs. The Texas administration was going to buy millions of e-mate for
the education sector of the country! Also the Australian government was
going to replace all the PC's from the administration! So don't say that the
Newton family was not profitable Mr Jobs !!
le 30/05/2000 16:28, Loren Finkelstein à Loren@Finkelstein.Net a écrit :
> For a long time I felt the same way.
>
> However...
>
> I won't cut off my nose to spite my face.
>
> The only way I would ever buy an Apple PDA again would be if they came out
> with something better, for my needs, than anythnig else available.
>
> I certainly wouldn't wait for Apple to come out with some imaginary future
> PDA. Especially now that they have announced they are not working on such a
> product.
>
> Loren
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeremy Shepherd" <jbond@netcom.com>
> To: "Newtontalk" <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 10:00 AM
> Subject: Re: NTLK Spotted - New Newton !!??
>
>
>>> I hope. I have been putting off buying a Pocket PC or a Palm in hopes of
> an
>>> Apple model.
>>
>> I'm surprised anyone would buy an Apple PDA again after the sleazy way we
> were abandoned in '98 with the -10061 bug still crippling our machines. Even
> today the bug has only been "worked around" in a pretty kludgy way and not
> solved.
>>
>> The only way I would ever buy an Apple PDA again would be if Steve Jobs
> personally delivered it to me along with an apology for leaving Newton users
> with damaged goods.
>>
>> - Jeremy
>> Jeremy Bond SHEPHERD | I never take any notice of what common
> people
>> San Francisco, CA | say, and I never interfere with what
> charming
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> personality
>> | selects is absolutely delightful to me.
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