Re: [NTLK] "Paper-based computing"? Or just overlooking the obvious (Newton)?

~~~ On 2007/06/02 17:49, jg at atcnn2@yahoo.se wrote ~~~

> First of all it is old news. Secondly, instead of caring only my
> tablet I have to carry this "Pen" and my tablet??? I prefare to carry
> my tablet, only. I would suggest to spend more time on making the
> tablet as light as paper, screen readable in e-ink technology and not
> to use paper at all (think about environment) . What about HWR? Can
> computer read any handwriting?? I don't think so.
>
> At the moment I don't see any device better than Newton which can be
> used to take notes and for HWR. And is under 0.5kg.
>
> John
>
>
> On 2-Jun-07, at 4:47 PM, Lord Groundhog wrote:
>
>> My Newt growled at being called a well-known failure:
>> http://tinyurl.com/2zn6c5
>>
>> ...still, it¹s an interesting idea, apart from the business about
>> using that
>> paper.
>>
>> Shalom.
>> Christian
>>
>> ~~~ ~~~ ~~~
>>
>> ³Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from a
>> NewtonPad.²
>>

John,

This is the problem with every attempt to avoid the painfully obvious -- all
of them, even (especially?) Jobs himself, seem really to wish, very very
hard, to pretend the Newton never existed. So they keep trying to re-invent
the wheel -- and they end up giving us square ones, hexagonal ones, ones
with little knobs and ones with big knobs, everything except wheels that
actually are wheel-like.

And everytime I think what the Newton could be now if they'd just stop
messing around, I want to holler at them all, "Stop this! Just give me a
2007-model Newton!"
 
Shalom.
Christian

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