>> 6. Simply, Jobs hated the Newton and his buddy Bill Gates in their $150
>> million dollar deal was for Apple to stop all work on Newton so Gates
>> could take over the vertical markets with the Windows Ce. Gates gave him
>> the money for the development of the Imac and for securing future versions
>> of Mac Office.
>That Number 6 really makes me sick... I am dissapointed in the reasoning for
>that kind of decision and conditions surrounding the cancelling of the
>Newton. Isn't it obvious when someone wants to kill off your thing, that you
>have a good thing going... I mean - Mr Gates didnt care too much about the
>Mac, he couldn't see it being a threat anymore, but the palm OS market.
>Mate. He obviously saw that Newton OS was a serious competitor, and possible
>winner - Job's shouldn't have killed it on principle..........GUTTED!
Don't be led too quickly into a ridiculous conspiracy theory like this.
Regardless of how much we fixate on and continue to use our beloved
MessagePads, there's still no guarantee the product would have found it's
place in
the market in the face of very significant competition from Palm. There's
plenty of
room for disagreement on the decision, and people continue to fixate on the
personalities involved with no more than rumor and speculation to draw
on...but
there's no reason to believe that the Newton division wasn't shut down for
anything other than basic good business sense.
It's also important to remember that Apple has always carried a large
amount of
ready cash on their balance sheets, even when the perception (not entirely
accurate) was that the company was one step away from complete and utter
failure. Apple didn't need the investment from Microsoft to survive; and they
certainly didn't need it to develop the iMac. When all is said and done,
it was a
brilliant public relations scheme that give Apple the appearance of
stability for
those who thought the company desperately needed it, and it was an investment
that paid off nicely for Microsoft.
BRIAN/bpearce_at_cloud9.net
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