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- From: wilcoxt@cuug.ab.ca (Terrance Wilcox 260-8100)
- Subject: Re: Newton tech (was The future of Apple)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.201918.9037@cuug.ab.ca>
- Organization: Calgary UNIX Users' Group
- References: <Cohena-131192124802@l30346.mdc.com> <1992Nov14.160614.7018@cuug.ab.ca> <Cohena-161192121927@l30346.mdc.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:19:18 GMT
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- In article <Cohena-161192121927@l30346.mdc.com> Cohena@mdc.com (Andy Cohen) writes:
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- >I guess I didn't communicate my point correctly. The PDA is not
- >necessarily the input to the commercial devices..... The PDA is just the
- >first attempt at actually using the Newton technologies. What I'm trying
- >to describe is how Apple seems to be moving away from being a desktop
- >computer company and moving towards becoming the big OEM to consumer
- >electronics devices....
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- That's my point exactly. Apple is moving away from computers and toward
- consumer electronics. What happens to people that like Apple computers?
- Do we buy VCR's instead?
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- >I definately agree that taken by itself, a Newton/PDA looks like one heck
- >of a gamble....I will also not pay $1K for an item which can be dropped or
- >stolen. I have an HP95 ($350). I would bet that HP doesnt market the 95LX
- >because only heavy PC users can really figure out how to use it... The PDA
- >can fail..... on the other hand.... Apple KNOWs how to market
- >something....and they more than any other company...(including Sony....look
- >at their diskman....yech!) can pull it off.....
-
- Another win for marketing, another loss for innovation. Marketing
- is not necessarily a good thing, but it seems to have become Apple's
- focus. I liked Apple more as a computer company.
-
- >Think about it..... what better strategy....develop a proprietary set of
- >functions that border on AI as a new generation of user input
- >capabilities..... The functions do the programming for the user.... seal
- >it in silicon, then sell the chips that make it possible to all the
- >consumer electronics producers.....minimal production costs.....only
- >profit...only way to go...
- >
- Yay, gross profiteering at the consumer's price. Apple used to have
- vision. Now they have marketing.
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- Terry Wilcox
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