“Rumor sites have long been atwitter about Apple resurrecting the Newton MessagePad. While officially dead for nearly a decade, those rumors got a boost this year when Steve Jobs rolled out the iPhone as a combination ‘mobile phone, iPod, and breakthrough Internet device,'”‘ Daniel Eran Dilger writes for RoughlyDrafted. “The iPhone first appeared to be Jobs’ version of the Newton, but after the iPod Touch revealed Apple’s long term plans for targeting a wider range of devices, the idea of a tablet assistant gained new credence as a realistic possibility. What does Apple’s past reveal about its future?”
Dilger explores whether Apple CEO Steve Jobs really is “anti-Newton” as some has surmised, the history of the Newton, the many reasons why Jobs killed the Newton, Newton’s offspring (iPod and iPhone) and the future possibilities in his full article here.
And stop taunting the tigers for crying out loud.
The trouble is, Ampar is an unfunny royal pain in the ass who frequently clogs these boards with crap. This pathetic excuse who still hangs off his mommy’s teat will post anything in his desperate attempts to be liked and unfortunately he has his asslick followers who latch on to him in order to share some of his assinine limelight. You got it wrong criticising ChrissieOne though. She actually does make worthwhile contributions.
Whether Jobs is anti-Newton or not is totally irrelevant. The iPhone’s interface is nothing like the Newton’s. And there is no marketing advantage to naming a new product after an old product that never caught on with the masses (or is remembered as a clever failure). An iPhone with a bigger screen and more apps will be called, amazingly, an “iPhone.” Even more amazingly, there will be a version without the mobile phone parts, and it will be called an “iPod.” I’m so smart…
Spark,
I don’t have my Mac in front of me to look at ATM, but I believe there is a setting in the preferences regarding how long to show completed items in the To-Do list. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong!
-sm
Look everyone.
Eddie the asswipe is back. This is a troll that never contributes anything. Except for his lunatic ramblings about his hatred of my posts which I’m guessing give him nightmares and make him wet himself.
“She actually does make worthwhile contributions.”
And you contribute nothing but bitterness and rage, you little freakish buttmunch.
TowerTone: This is Eddie. The darker and more freakish version of Frank. At least Frank tries to contribute if you can call it that.
“@Georgy Porgy (a.k.a. “Thorin”)
You (both of you?) should just take a chill pill or something. Life is too short to get so worked up over so little.”
I have never been more misunderstood in my life. Believe me, I don’t post under other names. Georgy Porgy and I have both been posting here for quite a while now, and I was picking on him. I guess I should have posted a “/sarcasm”, to prevent your confusion. Sorry.
ANYWAY, I agree with some on the point that we will never see the Newton brand resurface. Jobs would not let any of the Sculley influence resurface IMO.
@ John C. Randolph
You miss the point: the iPhone is the “new” Newton. All talk of resurrecting the “old” Newton – indeed, all Newton references – should end now.
Well Ampar, as a wise man almost once said: “Far better to remain silent and have people think you’re a moron than to post a comment and remove all doubt”.
Oooh, good burn, Eddie, Waster of Bandwidth.
@Jimbo
Apple would not exist any longer, had it kept on developing the Newton.
$1bn lost in 5 years. That’s not imaginable.
Steve killed it to save Apple. And I challenge anyone to say he didn’t make it!
MW: chance. As the Newton had no chance at that time…
I was Peter’s Son once.
Once.
Actually, I was Peter’s Son every other time, but I’m happy to pass it on.
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And as long as I’m coming clean, I was also M.T. Wence.
And once I stole a brownie from Howard Johnson’s.
Whew! What a relief!
-c
Ozz: “Apple would not exist any longer, had it kept on developing the Newton.”
Here’s another test. Compare John Sculley today with
Steve Jobs today. Case closed.
“And once I stole a brownie from Howard Johnson’s.”
And not that bird that dips its beak into the water forever?
why make a newton2 ?
When the direction of the Palm eventually went to the integration innovated with a telephone.
iPhone out does the Newton.
iPhone is more then a Palm Treo.
So why would Apple introduce a big iPhone or iTouch calling it the Newton2.
Dumb dumb dumb… lack of vision… stop it I don’t accept this.
What the iPhone does really well is all the functions in one device plus work as a cell phone; where the iTouch lacks this function.
In essence the iTouch is the new Newton. So gosh why make a big version of that?
A MacSlate – something like a laptop that can install regular applications for MAC or WINDOWS or LINUX and can browse the net like iTouch WOULD be the next step.
If it is to have communications like a phone it will be more like VIDEO CHATTING from a more refined iChat.
To have a form factor 12- 14 inches in size and require one to hold the device up to your ear is DUMB DUMB DUMB.
ken1w has a great point.
chrissyone cleans up nicely.
john c. randolph I agree iPhone is different then the newton and has far more functionality then compared to those days yet in the general sense it is the better reason why there should be no new NEWTON.
georgy porgy – I get what you are saying… and I would add that this sub-notebook STILL requires something we have not thought of. Perhaps it is simple that you can install regular programs. Perhaps this NEW device brings back INK from the Newton days as a interesting MULTI-TOUCH environment and input method.
APPLE owns MULTI-TOUCH as we all know it.
It can be expanded further now people in the phone industry have seen. I think perhaps this “MacSlate” will take a huge leap forward at trying to use this input method far more then we have seen with the iPhone.
Steve Jobs mentioned that Desktops were not appropriate devices for this UE as of yet. So is this MACSLATE the Multi-TOUCH dream where we shall see more functionality…
THE new device needs something really special to either complete a product line or offer direction for a new product line.
But as a new NEWTON — this is boring and lame.
Please, I need to be inspired.
I will let Apple do this job.
Long live Multi-Touch. Because the form of the laptop is odd. a fold out keyboard is old… unnecessary – we will see the virtual keyboard better accepted with this new device.
We will see ways of using a Mac in a new fashion… maybe the Wii’s or iPhones positioning sensors will be included.
I for one can’t wait to see this. And again… yeah Apple will be five years ahead of the competition because it STUDIES what others are doing. Toshiba has a NANFLASH laptop. Samsung is offering FLASH HD to replace your laptops HD… a lot of the Apple devices have gone flash memory… this is a NATURAL move… so so what is SPECIAL about this MacSlate.
I can only dream… and hope it pleases my needs.
Dougless
hmmm…”Newton”….i like the name of that device…got a pleasant ring to it
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check Dilger’s latest. He knows more about the Newton than you do.
and when ampar and towertone descend into juvenile blathering, as they are won’t to do, I go elsewhere. Lot’s of other cool Mac sites on the internets.
Wont. Bloody iPhone corrected me incorrectly.
The next-gen Newton is here now, and its name is iPhone.
@ ChrissyOne
You’re a lesbian? Am i the last one to know that?!
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(Georgy Porgy: “…including ChrissyOne The Lesbian.”)
If i’d be a women, i would be lesbian too: i love women just too much!
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“the iPhone is the “new” Newton.”
Oh, come on. Sure, it’s not perfect, that but that’s way too harsh.
-jcr
“$1bn lost in 5 years. That’s not imaginable.”
Heh.. You know, the funny thing is that Apple could actually afford that now.
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-jcr
@Macsheikh, didn’t you know? All the hot Mac-chicks are lesbians! Or so, we’ve been told by MS-fanboys.