Re: [NTLK] might give up on newton

Our corporations are sick. Why? The system allows, more or less,
"hit-and-miss" managers to decide which product should be produced or not.
No one cares about actual "content" of the items and it's signification for
the future development.

As long as I know, the only rule Corporation Management should follow (by
the Law) is "taking profit". The Corporations are run by profit taking
minded people. That's why we burn oil or coal and destroy our environment
until now. We burn for profit taking.

Mr. Jobs is a great personality. He moves our world forward, a bit. But
still he, personally, cannot stop development of one of the best products
ever seen, because of his personal animosities. It should be his
responsibility to develop a product which is on very high technical level
(already). Corporation Law should force him and the Management to do so. We
have to change Corporation Law. If we don't do so we still would see VHS
instead of Betamax, stereo instead of quadro, Graffiti instead of HWR...or
developers spending time on "tablets" with 4cm x 6cm screen which is like
developing 1m long toilet paper. It is useless but you cannot through it
away, you have to buy it and use it.

Is Newton "Xerox-like" story again? Shall we wait for Chinese to copy a
Newton? Perhaps we have to speak with them because our leaders are deaf?

John

>
> Speaking only for myself, I choose to be 'angry' -- not quite the right word
> -- at the incredible short-sightedness of the people who decided that Newton
> could never be a viable proposition and needed to be discontinued, and then
> despite the last 11 years of development in technology and the last 11 years
> of the Newton Community's history, apparently keep deciding that a
> resurrected Newton still isn't a viable proposition. The whole thing is
> incomprehensible to me.
>
> IMO the kind of person who decides that needs to have his feet placed in a
> large pot of topsoil, and the pot should be watered twice a week. He's not
> safe to be allowed out by himself. I'm sure that's unfair, unkind,
> uncharitable to the person(s) responsible, as well as insulting to all the
> relatively intelligent vegetation that covers the planet. Maybe I should
> even apologize, but I can't get away from how amazing an updated Newton
> would be. I can't even get away from how amazing the Newton I have now
> already is. And when I see the reactions of people the first time they see
> a Newton being used, I *know* there would be a market.
>
> I doubt anyone is mad at you Frank -- we're all in the same boat, and you
> said what a lot of us feel from time to time.
>
>

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