From: Alan Shaw (alanshaw_at_comcast.net)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 12:26:15 PDT
In a New York Times profile of Steve Jobs published April 25, our green
friend gets a mention that's not entirely negative:
"In fact, throughout his career, Mr. Jobs has been notable as much for
the products he has resisted selling as for the ones he has pursued.
During the mid-80's, after his falling-out with John Sculley, the
former PepsiCo executive he hired in 1983 to run Apple, Mr. Jobs
resisted repeated proposals from young Macintosh engineers to join them
in efforts to create hand-held digital devices that would ultimately
become the Newton and General Magic projects. It would be a wise
decision, for both Newton, the personal digital assistant, and General
Magic, a similar hand-held computer, proved to be ahead of their time,
and neither led to successful consumer products."
Alan Shaw
Sarasota, Florida
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