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Over 1,500 Developers Line Up For Newton Platform
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Willis)
Mon Jul 26 14:33:23 1993
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 14:11:41 EST
From: awillis@MIT.EDU (Albert Willis)
To: bcs-newton@world.std.com, newton_pda_group@bcsmac.bcs.org
Over 1,500 Developers Line Up For Newton Platform
Contact:
Christopher Escher
Apple Computer, Inc.
(408) 974-2202
Over 1,500 Developers Line Up For Newton Platform
CUPERTINO, California--July 23, 1993--Developer interest and support
for Apple's Newton technology continues to gain momentum as the
company closes in on the official launch date for its first Newton
communications assistant product. According to the company, more
than 1,500 developers have expressed an interest in developing
applications and titles for the Newton family. A number of
developers will have products ready to ship as early as the Fall of
this year: it is anticipated that these products will be announced at
the time of launch of the first Newton.
"There's a lot of wind in Newton's sails right now." said Philip
Ivanier, Development Relations manager at PIE. "Developers are
attracted by Apple's licensing of "Newton Intelligence" to major
corporations such as Matsushita, Motorola and Sharp. And since
Apple's worldwide developer conference in May we have held some
workshops for developers in the U.S., Japan and Europe, shipped a
comprehensive suite of developer tools--the Newton Toolkit, and we
are in the closing stages of formulating a full developer program
that has been receiving excellent early reviews from the community.
This program will encompass a variety of options to address the
needs of different developers."
Newton Toolkit--which is due for Fall shipment--will provide
graphical layout capabilities, and will utilize both the NewtonScript
programming language and built-in Newton components. It will support
content, applications development and authoring tools. These tools
can significantly reduce the effort and programming time associated
with application development, therefore increasing the productivity
of developers using the Newton Toolkit.
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