I just got my January 28 edition of "Information Week." Once again, the
Newton is mentioned in pejorative terms.
The article is entitled "Office of the Future". It starts out: "In 1987,
Apple Computer produced a short promotional video, imaging how people
would use technology at the dawn of the 21st century. Its anticipation
of the way professionals would one day work was remarkably prescient. In
the video, a globe-trotting professor uses a portable computer to
download data from a worldwide information network. An intelligent
software agent becomes his liaison to online information. He speaks
commands to his machine in plain English and authors an interactive,
multimedia document for colleagues to share.
"Not everything outlined in that scenario has come to pass, of course.
The tablet computer heralded by the video evolved into the Apple Newton,
a spectacular failure ..."
For such a spectacular "failure", it is amazing to me how many people
still use it, and how far the Newton is ahead of the current crop of
pda's!!!
Patrick
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A Message from Patrick Jendraszak
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