Re: [NTLK] Jobs: "Computers have keyboards" - iPod: "Nyaa nyaa"

From: Rod (lavo_at_mac.com)
Date: Sat Apr 17 2004 - 10:35:20 PDT


On 18/4/04 5:22 AM, "Grant Hutchinson" <grant_at_splorp.com> wrote:

> In a previous message, Rod typed vigorously:
>
>> It may have continued to drain on company resources because no
>> one wanted to buy a big, bulky device that was a cross between
>> a laptop and a pda.
>
> I have a small nit to pick with this statement. The Newton was not 'a
> cross between a laptop and a pda'... it *was* a pda - as in 'personal
> digital assistant'. It is still the only true example of a pda, in the
> original sense of the term.
>
> g.
>

My mistake! I was thinking of the term pda in today's sense - a small
device that holds addresses, notes etc. In my opinion the Newton was more
of a computer than today's pda, thus why I said the above.

Anyway, why didn't anyone buy it?

Seeya

Rod!

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