5 Jul
2012
5 Jul
'12
3:32 p.m.
On 07/05/2012 03:59 PM, Mark Benson wrote:
I think your opinion of how well they sold may be
coloured by the population you hung around in.
Of course. Everyone's viewpoint depends on their...you know, view. I
tend to not even acknowledge the existence of nontechnical people,
because I find most of them to be mostly worthless. Most of them run
Windows, if they have a computer at all, which means they constantly ask
me to fix their broken Windows machines or other stupid stuff. Most of
them don't understand what I'm all about (and don't care to) and have no
interest in what I'm doing, and that feeling is mutual.
(note that by "technical" I don't only mean "computer" or
"electronics" technical)
But do keep in mind...someone else with a very narrow worldview (I
forget who) loudly asserted here not long ago that there are very few
computer programmers in the world. That was demonstrated by statistics
to be pure bunk during that thread, and I'm not talking about just
"computer programmers" in the context of the Newton.
Whether Apple liked it or not, they became a common tool of technical
people, people who love technology to begin with, not every unwashed sod
on the street. They were FAR ahead of their time, as is demonstrated by
the wild takeover of the iPad. I'm willing to bet that no Newton ever
found its way into a "sports bar". I wonder if Apple would've been more
satisfied with the product's sales performance if they narrowed their
ambition (yeah right) to just considering it a technical person's product.
So...I'm interested to know if anyone has actual sales figures for
that machine.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA