Re: [NTLK] Why Apple Killed The Newton

From: Charles Broderick (chabro_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 13:01:47 PDT


Not only that, but by selling the schools low-cost eMates instead of $$$$
laptops, you would be killing your profits. In many ways, the Newton had to
go. Well, in one way, but many dollars.

I won't rant...for Steve Jobs, it is not about bringing high tech stuff to
the masses...it is all about maximizing profits and being seen as "cool."

Everytime I see a rumor about a $99 iPod, I laugh!

>
> A couple of weeks ago, I happened to run into a former schoolmate who used
> to work with Apple India Ltd. - here's what she had to say "...contrary to
> what most people believe (that Steven Jobs killed the Newton as it was John
> Sculley's brainchild), the real issue was that it caused the PowerBook sales
> to plummet! In the MP 2100, potential powerbook buyers saw a workhorse that
> could do just about everything that most users would require, at a third of
> the cost and a fraction of the weight..."

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