[36] in bcs-newton
Re: Newton Analogies
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hunting)
Tue Oct 27 21:48:31 1992
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 21:45:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Sam Hunting <shunting@world.std.com>
To: Ben Schaffer <bschaffer%uhavax.dnet@ipgate.hartford.edu>
Cc: "bcs-newton@world.std.com%IPGATE.dnet"@ipgate.hartford.edu,
In-Reply-To: <9210280231.AA03456@ipgate.hartford.edu>
>Not that optimistic...
Yes, I need radio. Infrared is not good enough.
On Tue, 27 Oct 1992, Ben Schaffer wrote:
> 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.
