From: keith (keith_at_vortex.co.uk)
Date: Mon Apr 18 2005 - 00:59:26 PDT
Sometime around 18/4/05 (at 3:22 am -0400) Brad Schurman said:
>Does Jobs give you the impression he would urinate on
>any Mac user still carrying around a Newton?
[...]
>WtHeck is he so pssd about?
How about because it was the legacy of the guy that had him ousted
from Apple back in 1985? And because he feels it was a near-crippling
use of time, effort and money, a problem that was systemic of Apple
during the early-to-mid 1990s?
I'm not saying he's right, at least as far as whether the Newton
was/is good or not, but if you step back and look at it from his
viewpoint you might be able to understand it a bit more.
(And BTW, it ain't no impression that he hates the thing. Displaying
Newton loyalty is still seen as a seriously career-limiting move
within Apple by those who are long toothed enough to remember those
days.)
k
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