Re: [NTLK] Why did the Newton fail?

From: Grant Hutchinson (grant_at_splorp.com)
Date: Sun Nov 17 2002 - 23:24:49 EST


In a previous message, Martin Joseph typed vigorously:

>>> Very funny, actually I remember business week magazine running an
>>> issue with a cracked Apple logo on the cover and the headline "can
>>> Apple Survive?" circa 1981....
>>
>> Didn't Wired have a similar cover about two years back ...?
>>
> Wired had the Apple logo surrounded by barbed wire and the
> headline "Pray"

From June 1997, at the height of the last Apple "deathwatch". That's one
of my favorites.

     http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/

Hmmm... and it looks eerily similar to the most recent Wired cover, on
the theme of Science and Religion:

     http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.12/full.html

Coincidence?

g.

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