2 Feb
2006
2 Feb
'06
3:49 p.m.
Actually I was at Apple and in the same group (ATG, Advanced Technology
Group) at that time.
I think you are being a lot more generous to the 'Smartifacts' project
being 'real' than is my recollection.
It was an interesting RESEARCH effort, but it never even got close to
product status.
Smartifacts was never even close to a competitor to Newton (or any kind
of PDA) as a product.
Don North
Apple, 1982-1997
'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote:
Nope, other stuff. One guy was Harry Vertelney who
worked on a project
called Smartifacts. He went into interactive TV and now he works on DARPA
stuff at Sun. The other guy was Paul Mercer who worked on a project called
Swatch. He founded Pixo which made the iPod interface and now he's doing a
startup doing OS design for phones.
Commercial plug: the relevant parts of their stories are on my PDA history
page at http://www.snarc.net/pda/pda-treatise.htm ....
-Evan
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Don North
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:45 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Mythbusters
He's probably alluding to 'General Magic'. See
http://www.byte.com/art/9402/sec3/art1.htm and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic
Richard wrote:
In article <001b01c62823$fb72d0d0$6401a8c0 at
DESKTOP>,
"'Computer Collector Newsletter'" <news at
computercollector.com>
writes:
[...] The top engineers from those projects all
left Apple in
frustration when the inferior Newton was picked as the one to
commercialize.
Where did they go?