[NTLK] iPhone is not the new Newton (& announcing a Newt sell-off shortly)

[Miro Copic]

Hi,

It does make me laugh from time to time, to be reminded that a strange
need for this list exists  - to serve as a perpetual showing stage for individuals
who simply cannot move on.

If there's a measurement for a dead horse beating, NewtonTalk
would rank distant first ever. Do we really need more disecting of Apple/Jobs/Newton
fiasco?! Is there any wrinkle in the story that we haven't heard from all
possible angles?! Twelve years after?

Best, Miro

On Jan 28, 2010, at 1:51 AM, Bob Carls Dudney wrote:

> On 6/1/10, I'm not sure who wrote: 
> |
>> Jobs wanted to see the Newton dead, for more than entirely rational
>> reasons
>> 
>> OS itself was on borrowed time
> 
> Yet the gold standard of OS evaluators, Byte, said it was best PC 
> operating system ever right before it got Steved, even better than 
> Mac.
> 
> And what OS isn't on borrowed time ever?
> 
> In fact, is any other OS version in its teens still as actively in 
> use as 2.1 is?
> 
> I'm utterly incompetent to judge anything about the technicalities of 
> continuing to develop Newt OS, but I do know it's more true than not: 
> Where there's a will there's a way.
> 
> I've said it here before and today's global Apple hysteria just 
> further underscores my take:
> 
> Newton was a way too cheap and efficient way to get lotsa things done 
> = too little margin.
> 
> Had Newton been allowed to achieve its potential Apple would now be a 
> fraction the company it became: one of biggest, most reliable cash 
> cows in world.
> 
> Did it really take nearly 15 years to come up with a color tablet 
> than can web surf, but doesn't multitask?!! (And does he really 
> believe it's Apple's most advanced technology?)
> 
> Jobs doesn't strike me as irrational in his professional life -- And 
> I sure as Hell don't want to know about his personal one, assuming he 
> has one.
> 
> I don't see any of whatever achievements he claims greater than 
> Apple's bottom line for more than a decade now.
> 
> Everything points to him seeing well how much a threat Newton was/is 
> to HIS agenda, and acting very accordingly.
> 
> And I suspect that agenda is a major if not THE reason Newton 
> engineers abandoned ship.
> 
> I also wonder how much weight to give interviews and articles 
> indicating otherwise -- I doubt many techies want to cross Jobs: he 
> wields considerable power in their whole world, not just inside Apple.
> 
> I'm also not doubting Gates had considerable sway on Newt's demise as 
> well, since it was and in several ways still is closest thing to his 
> dream machine. He musta been greener than Wicked Witch of the West 
> with envy.