Re: [NTLK] Newton mentioned in New York Times

From: Doug Augustyn (optix_at_six5535.org)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 12:30:26 PDT


Not to start rumors, but maybe Jobs is starting to understand exactly what he
did when he killed the Newton.

Responding to Alan Shaw's comment:
||In a New York Times profile of Steve Jobs published April 25, our green
||friend gets a mention that's not entirely negative:
||"In fact, throughout his career, Mr. Jobs has been notable as much for
||the products he has resisted selling as for the ones he has pursued.
||During the mid-80's, after his falling-out with John Sculley, the
||former PepsiCo executive he hired in 1983 to run Apple, Mr. Jobs
||resisted repeated proposals from young Macintosh engineers to join them
||in efforts to create hand-held digital devices that would ultimately
||become the Newton and General Magic projects. It would be a wise
||decision, for both Newton, the personal digital assistant, and General
||Magic, a similar hand-held computer, proved to be ahead of their time,
||and neither led to successful consumer products."
||
||Alan Shaw
||Sarasota, Florida
||
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