Don't forget that we judge all others by what we already have ;-)
We (or maybe just I) watch movies on our Newts and wish they were in color.
I'm just waiting for someone to make a good copy of a 2100 with a color
screen. If it comes from Apple or is a true Newton product via some
licensing deal - all the better.
Fred - stirring up trouble once again...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Witte" <jswitte_at_bloomington.in.us>
To: <newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 10:30 PM
Subject: [NTLK] What would have happened to PDA market if Apple had waited?
>
> According to Defying Gravity, Apple rushed the Newton to market
> because they feared competition (heh heh). Apple did rush to maket with
> an (IMO) not-matured, underpowered product (underpowered for something
> they wanted to claim, "could read you handwriting" if not other things)
> By the time they had a mature product (N2100) and pulled the plug,
> competition had only begun to materialize in a serious way with Palm and
> WinCE, and the others just seem like bit players to me - important none
> the less, but bit players.
>
> Now, what if Apple hadn't announced the Newton too early at the
> computer show I forget the name of, and had waited until they had
> perfected things, or found a faster processor at the beginning, waited
> until they had Rosetta done, optimized the HWR algorithms to use on-chip
> cache, etc? Would the competition that Apple apparently feared have
> actually materialized, and if it did, would it have lasted?
>
> Over the first several iterations of WinCE, MS has shown itself to be
> rather bewildered by the idea that a PDA is *not a desktop computer*,
> and now seems to be trying to jump on the media bandwagon with "Yes, but
> you can watch Britney Spears in full color while walking down the
> street, and bash you head into a lamp-post.." Palm appears to be moving
> ever-so-slowly to a faster processor.. I'm not sure what the other ones
> are doing (or if they're are really any left). What kinds of PDAs were
> around at the time the Newton was introduced?
>
> Jim
>
>
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