crave.cnet.co.uk— Cnet pitted the Apple Newton Messagepad against the latest Samsung Q1 ultra-mobile PC (Origami project), and -- despite being a decade old -- the Newton won.
Jul 27, 2006View in Crawl 4
<a class="user" href="http://www.paullynch.org/pda/pda44/newton.rip.html">http://www.paullynch.org/pda/pda44/newton.rip.html</a>"...at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference last year [1997?], had spent a significant fraction of his time rubbishing the Newton as that scribble thing. According to Jobs, the only point of a PDA was to handle email, and to do that you needed a keyboard."He didn't like it much then; but I can understand the affection for the device, the eMate was a great little device and I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a Newton now. Afterall as they kinda point out, it's much cheaper, but, I suspect this may push prices up on eBay.I'm surprised they didn't also compare a modern phone (treo/blackberry) to them both.
I'm a Mac-head, and I agree that Windows (or rather MS) will probably continue to kick Apple's ass (in market share and revenue, at least). This is due to the fact that MS is catering to the business market, which is larger than the consumer market, and that they license to commodity hardware manufacturers. Apple will most-likely continue to relegate itself to its niche vertical platform, with control over the whole device. On the flip side, Apple customers will continue to enjoy a better computing experience, and for general computing (as opposed to dedicated tasks), will retain the advantage in productivity as more care has been put into the design of OS and application interfaces and integration. While it was a lame flamebait post, I can't say it's wrong. Lowest common denominator will usually come out ahead in the marketplace, even if it's not the best-suited for the job.
@naio21Newton OS 1.x had terrible handwriting recognition. Newton OS 2.x (MessagePad 2000 and 2100) had amazing handwriting recognition. It's night and day in comparison.
stuarteaJul 28, 2006
<a class="user" href="http://www.paullynch.org/pda/pda44/newton.rip.html">http://www.paullynch.org/pda/pda44/newton.rip.html</a>"...at Apple's World Wide Developer Conference last year [1997?], had spent a significant fraction of his time rubbishing the Newton as that scribble thing. According to Jobs, the only point of a PDA was to handle email, and to do that you needed a keyboard."He didn't like it much then; but I can understand the affection for the device, the eMate was a great little device and I wouldn't mind getting my hands on a Newton now. Afterall as they kinda point out, it's much cheaper, but, I suspect this may push prices up on eBay.I'm surprised they didn't also compare a modern phone (treo/blackberry) to them both.
wiseweaselJul 28, 2006
I'm a Mac-head, and I agree that Windows (or rather MS) will probably continue to kick Apple's ass (in market share and revenue, at least). This is due to the fact that MS is catering to the business market, which is larger than the consumer market, and that they license to commodity hardware manufacturers. Apple will most-likely continue to relegate itself to its niche vertical platform, with control over the whole device. On the flip side, Apple customers will continue to enjoy a better computing experience, and for general computing (as opposed to dedicated tasks), will retain the advantage in productivity as more care has been put into the design of OS and application interfaces and integration. While it was a lame flamebait post, I can't say it's wrong. Lowest common denominator will usually come out ahead in the marketplace, even if it's not the best-suited for the job.
thefingerJul 28, 2006
the village idiots convention must be taking a break and posting on Diggbut then again, when are they not?run along now, mr clueless
macdorkJul 28, 2006
Sure, but when you're mobile, the UMPC is useless if the battery's dead.
rspeedJul 31, 2006
@naio21Newton OS 1.x had terrible handwriting recognition. Newton OS 2.x (MessagePad 2000 and 2100) had amazing handwriting recognition. It's night and day in comparison.
rspeedJul 31, 2006
Did you RTFA? They're right, and they didn't even take the fact that Newtons support WiFi.