The palm screen is already completely writable, but it really is too small
to use it like a Newton screen. I have JOT on my Palm Vx which enables me
to write anywhere on the screen, in regular letters - NOT GRAFITTI - but I
still gravitate towards the input boxes at the bottom of the screen. The
reason for this is it's too small to write and see what you're doing the way
you can with a Newton.
The Palm is pocketable (its best feature), but it's still a long way from
the Newt. Sometimes when using a Palm, it reminds me of the 1.x Newton OS,
almost. If Apple comes out with a Palm OS licensed PDA, it still won't be
able to replace the Newton, since it's too difficult to get real work done
on a Palm. Overlooking input issues, the Palm is a great datebook, but not
much more.
Matt
> From: <gooddog@northshore.net>
> Reply-To: newtontalk@planetnewton.com
> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 06:06:13 -0600
> To: <newtontalk@planetnewton.com>
> Subject: Re: NTLK Re: New Apple PDA?
>
> I remember seeing the "scribble thing" in a news article, too. Could it be
> a massive red herring to keep people off the trail? What better way to keep
> things quiet than to put down the Newton Cult and its sacred Newt? There
> was the promise to come out with something that would 'replace' the newton,
> or some-such idea.
>
> Anyway, I talked with a Newton programmer guy and asked if there was any
> possibility that a machine could be made that was the size of the palm, more
> or less, thin like the Palm, but had the handwriting capabilities of the
> Newton and the ability to write on the whole screen. He seemed to think
> that that was very do-able, but the processor would have to be stronger to
> accommodate the handwriting recognition. Does anyone have any ideas about
> how that'd work with the screen being completely write-able? How feasible is
> that?
>
> Seems to me that it'd be fairly easy for Apple to come up with something
> that'd beat the tar out of the Palm without even batting an eye (granted,
> the Newton does that already, by miles and miles. I'm referring to the size
> factor).
>
> Mark
>
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