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Re: Info World articles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Parker)
Wed Sep 1 23:17:18 1993
To: Cesar Maiorino <uunet!technet!cdm@world.std.com>
Cc: "bcs-newton@world.std.com" <bcs-newton@world.std.com>
In-Reply-To: Mail from Cesar Maiorino <uunet!technet!cdm@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1993 23:07:07 -0400
From: Brad Parker <brad@fcr.com>
In message <9308311503.AA11402@relay2.UU.NET>, Cesar Maiorino writes:
>There are 2 articles in the 8/30 Info World about the Message Pad. I
>don't have time to digest them right now, but I'll give the headlines and
>a one-liner for each.
>
>"Apple plans to ship Newton fix this week" - Yvonne L. Lee
>
>- Will be a free upgrade. Distribution method not disclosed.
>
>"Apple's MessagePad is an expensive gadget at best" - Kevin Strehlo
>
>- Basically complaining about bugs and handwriting recognition accuracy and
> unavailable services/apps.
I've come to the conclusion that no one from Apple actually *used* a Newton
before they released it.
Certainly if anyone used the "to do" list and kept the number of items
around 10 each day for 30 days, they'd have stopped using it because it
becomes horribly slow.
I can live with the handwriting mistakes. It's the "I'm going to pause to 15
seconds to find all your to-do items" that I can't stand.
-brad
