On Jun 14, 2009, at 6:18 PM, Reilly001os@aol.com wrote:
> Steven,
> I will agree that the intelligence of assist is limited by its
> keywords (and their synonyms) and I'll even go farther and agree
> that assists features are limited by the age it was designed in, but
> isn't limited better then absent?
Oh yes, limited is absolutely better than absent. What I'm trying to
understand is what I'm hearing as the claim that a Newton is not just
a better device than a Palm but a fundamentally different device than
a Palm. Everything that I ever did on a Newton I later did on a Palm,
just on a smaller screen. And in some cases, with greater ease and
accuracy (I can hear hundreds of people calling for my execution now).
I didn't really use either device as an organizer—almost every
electronic calendar or to-do app (handheld, desktop, web-based, all of
it) has forced me back to paper and pen, Newt's included (Things is
the first such application I haven't hated, and I'm not yet convinced
about it either).
I know my google comparison was perhaps unfair, but I was looking for
an example where the device could actually tell me something I didn't
already know.
Have you used Quicksilver on the Mac? I mentioned that before but is
that the sort of role that Assist played for you?
Steve
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