Purcher asks, “Hmm, considering that Apple has reinvented or repurposed their iBook trademark from that of a notebook to that which represents ebooks and an ebook store, could Apple be thinking of resurrecting or repurposing Newton for something meaningful once again?”
“Isaac Newton described the three laws of motion, developed a theory of color and formulated an empirical law of cooling while studying the speed of sound,” Purcher reports. “There’s certainly a lot of technology that Apple could apply this to – in respect to a future device – to ensure that Apple’s Newton goes down in history as a noteworthy success.”
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I highly doubt this… they just don’t want Google or anyone else using it.
Will iBooks be available for iPhone?
Newton is the offspring of the sugar water salesman, and is the bastard step child
Anti-gravity? Maybe.
You can do it Apple!
They’re just protecting their trademarks, I wouldn’t read much into it.
“Apple’s Newton Operating System 2.0 won Byte Magazine’s Best of Comdex-Fall ‘95 award in the operating system category.”
That’s the same year Windows 95 shipped. The Newton may have been mishandled but it was an extraordinary piece of gear for the time.
Honestly, I think Steve killed it more because of a need to focus on profitability than any other reason for killing Newton devices.
I miss my newton
There’s really nothing to see here, folks. Companies renew trademarks frequently. Given all the trademarks owned by Apple, this was probably part of a larger basket of trademark renewals.
It makes for a sexy headline, but little more. Evidence of a slow news week.
It’s too bad the Newton name has such a negative connotation to it as far as it being considered a failure, and having never been able to shed the early jokes about it’s handwriting recognition. Otherwise I think iNewton would have been a great name instead of iPad. If for anything to avoid all the immature and moronic maxi pad jokes…
iNewton: The Newton for the internet age. Just like how the iMac was kind of marketed by Apple as the Mac to embrace the internet age.
They won’t use it again. Jobs tells a story about how, when he went back to Apple, he found a room full of old macs and other items and he got someone to throw them all out. I think his words were something along the lines of “Get this sh*t out of here”.
He has no sentimentality and won’t go back to something from the past. They’ll be renewing the trademark as a formality.
When a trademark expires, somebody else can use it. Why would Apple want to prevent some other pad maker to use the name Newton? Duh!
This is great news!
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Why not use the Newton trade mark for a hand recognition app. That was break thru stuff at the time and is what the Newton was notorious for. Just a thought? I know we tend to ignore the usefulness of hand writing for note taking, certainly as a student I would find it invaluable for my ipad
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I still have two working Newtons™
The logo was and is still great.
Newrons art still grape! I still booze mine tu comment unline.
It’s outside the realm of Newtonian Physics, Captain.
Considering Apples doing a great deal of R&D;into screen tech and registering patents as such; including light pens, light sensitive screens along with their multi-touch research I’d say they have something in the works. they’ll look at the market progress of iPad and the next gen iPhone [pocket computer]…. we’ll see.
Not iNewton, enough with the “i” already. Just Newton.
I vaguely recall that the Newton needed $100M in development, and that Steve canned it because they needed the money for the candy-colored iMacs.
maybe, but, your logo is a lightbulb?.. like, Thomas Edison?
watch out GE…
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The Newton OS and the Apple Message Pads WERE and still ARE memorable. They were more, much more than the initial problems that everyone seems to remember !
Still using Newton at trade shows when I need to draw pictures or schematics, and need things written in Chinese. There is about 12 years of history in it so iPhone can’t quite replace it yet.
RUMOR: Apple is going to change the name of the company once more. From Apple to Fig. Anyone for a Fig Newton?