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Red-Headed Stepchild (12/29/97)
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Poor Newton-- it always seems to be the whipping boy at Apple. And given Apple's current role as the whipping boy of the industry, that's a pretty tough position, indeed. News.com is reporting that Newton-- once again-- may be deep-sixed or sold off. Is anyone surprised? Not too long ago we heard that Newton would be shut down or sold; then we saw it spun off as a separate company; then we saw it reabsorbed. This is only the next (not-so-)logical step in the process of keeping Newton confused and directionless.
Apparently a "significant" number of Newton employees, fed up with the lack of commitment to their department, have left for the greener pastures of 3Com's PalmComputing division, where they can work on the Pilot, a handheld device that (due primarily to its tiny size and tiny price) sells as well as Apple hoped the Newton MessagePads would. True, the Pilots can't do everything that MessagePads can, but they can come darn close based on what we've seen. Meanwhile, the future of the MessagePad is still hazy, and while Steve Jobs loves the eMate, who knows what'll happen over the next few months?
We at AtAT feel that Newton possibly getting axed is simply no longer news; Newton's been hanging by a thread for years now, so it's the status quo and we've heard it again and again. Apple committing to Newton, publicly and forcefully-- now that would be news. And we think it'd be good news. We're keeping our fingers crossed for an Expo announcement.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 12/29/97 episode: December 29, 1997: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)
Other scenes from that episode: 309: Another Lawsuit? Sure! (12/29/97) It's an embarrassment of riches, truly... Just think of all the legal activity running rampant in the AtAT universe right now. In the Big Top, Big Bad Microsoft is watching its stock slide as the Department of Justice keeps pounding on them for trying to monopolize the browser market, while Sun is still poking them with the Java stick... 311: Stock of the Week (12/29/97) Will wonders never cease? Hot on the heels of numerous industry recommendations that AAPL is one to watch, the San Francisco Chronicle has named Apple as their Stock of the Week. In their article, Ken Lim of CyberMedia Convergence Consulting spells it out plain and simple: where else can you buy stock in a multibillion-dollar company for about thirteen bucks a share?...
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