From: Ed Kummel (tech_ed_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jul 18 2004 - 23:10:54 PDT
This is a valid argument only if you value Apple as an
entity beyond the Newton...I don't. To me there's only
Newton. Apple exists for no other reason. So from my
perspective, what Jobs did was ultimatly wrong! It
does not benefit ME directly in any way so therefore
it cannot be the correct course of action.
Seriously, I think that the Newton could have become
THE PDA of choice, but $J is only for the here and
now. Future gratification doesn't exist for him.
Ed
web/gadget guru
--- David Deranian <deranian_at_mac.com> wrote:
> Here's another thought. Seeing Steve Jobs on the
> cover of Newsweek
> magazine this week reminds us how right he was, as
> much as it's painful
> for us Newton lovers to swallow. He discontinued a
> product that was
> causing Apple to hemorrhage, (Newton) and replaced
> it with a device so
> successful that it's become a cultural icon (iPod).
>
<snip>
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