September 21, 2007
What are you doing?
Why, Twittering from my Newton, of course.
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Posted by
Jensa on Thursday, September 27th, 2007.
Hi Grant,
Have you seen this article?
By the way, thanks for keeping that Newton running as a server. It’s such a great testament to how cool the machine still is.
My wife pulled her old one from a drawer last week as we were cleaning. She changed the batteries and ta-da-ding! it was still working as it should after ten years in a drawer. Try that with a Windows Mobile based device.
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Posted by
Grant Hutchinson on Saturday, September 29th, 2007.
Hey Jensa.
Yes, I did read that article (and several others along the same speculative lines). It will be interesting to see how Apple approaches the whole idea of a “sub-laptop / handheld / touch screen device” market. I think that it makes a lot of sense on some levels, given the technology they’ve integrated into the iPhone and iPod touch. But then again, Mr Jobs has been adamantly opposed to anything resembling a Newton or the traditional PDA hardware model.
We’ll have to wait and see.
To be sure, I’ll probably buy whatever Apple comes up with — but it won’t be replacing my Newton any time soon. The Newton isn’t about the hardware, it’s about the user interface, the software and the built-in intelligence — when combined with the hardware.
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