Re: [NTLK] Interesting article about the Newton

The reason is that each person's perspective differs, and none of
them were on the inside experiencing the events.

 From the inside, there were basically 2 reasons Newton was cancelled:
1. Apple needed to focus on rebuilding strong and recurring
revenue... i.e., lines that had good profit and would sell
- creating a Newton device that would sell would have taking a lot of
investment and time, and Palm was already starting to take off (of
course there was that one-off skunkworks Newton built into the shell
of a Palm Pilot :-)
- there was a fundamental disagreement about what would sell in the
market: the 2x00 style or a Palm style
- Apple is historically bad at licensing and the licensees were not
contributing to growth
- Newton as a separate company needed too much important Apple
intellectual property (not to mention cash) to survive

2. Steve Job's hated the Newton
- There were 2 strikes against Newton from Job's perspective. First,
Steve did not like the Newton from a design perspective (see above.)
Second, it was Scully's child, and Steve had no fondness for Scully
based on how he was forced out (and he can hold a grudge for years.)

Maurice
(Newton team 92-97)

On Dec 11, 2006, at 11:45 AM, John wrote:

> ...a very good read.
>
> But still, why can't there be an agreed upon consensus of the core
> strengths and weaknesses of the history of Newton. I, like everyone
> else continue to ponder. Thank you Kate for the reference. John
>
>> interesting article
>
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