[35] in bcs-newton
Newton Analogies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Schaffer)
Tue Oct 27 21:41:58 1992
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 92 21:31:48 -0500
From: bschaffer%uhavax.dnet@ipgate.hartford.edu (Ben Schaffer)
To: "bcs-newton@world.std.com"%IPGATE.dnet@ipgate.hartford.edu
Cc: BSCHAFFER@ipgate.hartford.edu
Newton -is- (sorry...will be) better than any of the current 'organizers'
but the buyers are not to be expected to know that. Remember, this is a world
in which the Mac OS and Microsoft DOS are considered pretty much the same.
I think one of the problems with today's computer industry, and the rest of
human existence for that matter, is people are having a hard time knowing
-what's good-. Maybe in these altruistic days it's normal for me to say this--
fifty years ago if the marketplace didn't flock to something, that was the
sign that it was no good. To me, it just shows the market doesn't understand
the thing (assuming that it really is a quality item). So that's where I'm
coming from a lot of the time.
I'm willing to pay whatever Apple charges, just to see what this is all about.I have to say, though, that I am not all that optimistic about the Newton. It
seems it has become more and more about less and less. But this is natural, now
that (we can hope) the multimedia craze has moved on from Newton and the
Apple-IBM cooperations to other venues. Things are cooling down now, and the
real Newton will prevail. And unvail. And retail.
