5 Jul
2012
5 Jul
'12
1:22 a.m.
On 5 Jul 2012, at 09:02, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 07/05/2012 03:42 AM, John Many Jars wrote:
The handwriting recognition was... inadequate (the cost of being a
pioneering technology), they never sold in much volume (they were
expensive and didn't have many applications), they were too heavy (a
limitation of the technology available) and the screen was hard to
read in some light or the backlight drained the battery (another tech
limitation). The idea was sound, the execution not so much. It was a
common problem at Apple back then.
As a technology it was a good first stab, as a product it tanked.
--
Mark Benson
http://markbenson.org/blog
http://twitter.com/MDBenson
(Then again, the
Newton was a disaster so maybe they will get it right this time.)
How, exactly? It worked very well, especially considering the era,
and lots of them were sold. I've read enough of your posts to know that
you wouldn't make a stupid assumption like "it didn't sell as well as
the iPad, so..." type of thing, so you must know something about Newtons
and their success as products that I don't.