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- From: tmjones@eos.ncsu.edu (@large(Are you Object-Oriented?))
- Subject: Re: HELP: Need Newton/HP95 help
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.180633.7505@ncsu.edu>
- Originator: tmjones@c00478-224wi.eos.ncsu.edu
- Sender: news@ncsu.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: tmjones@eos.ncsu.edu (@large(Are you Object-Oriented?))
- Organization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos
- References: <1993Jan20.190544.5823@unix.brighton.ac.uk> <1506@eouk17.eoe.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:06:33 GMT
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- >Titch (rjb12@unix.brighton.ac.uk) wrote:
- >[Stuff deleted]
- >
- >: I absolutely agree that Personal Digital Assitants (*not* pen computers)-
- >: Apple's description, and a very good one - should be the next computing
- >: 'revolution', but I don't think they'll take over from the desktop. That's
- >: like saying the PC will take over from the mainframe. Try telling Amdahl
- >: that and see what response you get. (It's all about throughput, you know :-))
- >:
- >
- >How do you differentiate between PDAs and pen computers, exactly? I always
- >thought PDA was an Apple marketing term. The only obvious difference I've
- >noticed between, say, a Newton and an EO440 is that the models of the former
- >are smaller than the (working hardware) of the latter, and that the `Newton'
- >has a simulation of a display etched onto what looks like a sheet of
- >perspex whereas the 440 has an eight-grey-level 640 X 480 LCD.
- >
-
- Well, there is no reason to get upset about all this, The truth is that if
- Apple ever gets the product out within a few month's after EO, they will
- probaly be sucessful. Apple has a name for itself and has a sucessful
- marketing company (Yes, being number 2 in the personal computer market
- should be considered sucessful.) The technical aspects can be argued all day
- but the #1 technical product is usually not the best seller. PDA's are being
- aimed at people who do not like computers. Apple is selling a consumer
- electronics product, not a computer. It's like a calculator or scheduler.
- The only difference is that the sell of Newton can lead to other sells of
- software and interfaces to other computers. Newton is described as a PDA
- instead of a pen-based computer because computers are not easy to use. As
- long as Apple gets its message across to the managers, it doesnt matter
- what the computer gurus say about other systems. The fact that we think apple
- is full of crap shows that their marketing ploy is working. Unless EO uses
- the same ploy, it will be stuck in the same niche that Amiga is right now
- (in America that is) as a toy for the computer nerds.
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