From: Robert Benschop (rbenschop_at_euronet.nl)
Date: Sat Oct 04 2003 - 01:40:39 PDT
Barry Rosenfeld wrote:
> He said that Jobs decided not to spin Newton off because
> Apple could not afford to lose the skilled engineers who worked on the
> Newt.
> He said that once Newton was terminated, the Newton engineers were
> reassigned to work on what eventually became OS X.
>
> I have long been one of the conspiracy theorists on this subject, but,
> having worked for a giant corporation for a number of years now, this
> answer
> sounds plausible.
Plausible in the way that he was probably telling the truth, yes.
Plausible reason for killing the Newt, no. After all Apple lost most
engineers that worked on the Newt...
Robert Benschop
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