[NTLK] Newton decay

From: Sam du Rose (samdurose_at_btconnect.com)
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 13:44:00 EST


Does anyone have an estimate for the current number of working Newtons? How many did Apple make in the first place anyway? Every now and again on the list someone has the sad duty to report a dead Newton, how many die a year? Do many people have two or more newts?

I suppose what I'm slowly fumbling towards is that we could do with some population data for the newton community in order to project its future. The BIG QUESTION of course being: when will all the Newts be dead? Will it die with many years of service unfulfilled, or will we all still be pondering jaggies and poutine when the rest of the world has been destroyed by the evil robots?

Sad thoughts I know, but inquiring minds and intelligent household pets need to know.

P.s. As an interesting side-note: when the last person leaves the platform and turns off the backlight maybe apple will see us all as a large untapped market (providing we don't all just buy palms) and do what it never would while we all still have machines that we're perfectly happy with.
"cognescens me, cognescens te, aha!" - turba cantorum ABBA

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