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Apple Newton II?

Monday November 10, 2003 6:44 am PST by Arnold Kim
While it may simply be speculation, one columnist claims "there's good reason to believe that a jazzy new Newton II will be forthcoming, perhaps in January" from Apple.



The original Newton was created by Apple in the early 90's and represented the first Personal Digital Assistant (PDA). The early Newtons were met with substantial criticism for their handwriting recognition. This technology was significantly improved in later revisions and finally became integrated into Mac OS X as "Inkwell".



Quicktime movies of a Newton 2000 (released in 1997) in action:



  • Say Hello to Newton (3.3MB)

  • Newton Assistant (2.9MB)

  • Newton Trash (2.8MB)



    • Rumors of an Apple-branded tablet resurfaced last year from traditionally accurate sources. (eWeek, ThinkSecret) However, Jobs has been publicly skeptical (Sept 2002) of the concept of tablets:



      We're not sure the tablet PC will be successful. It's turned into a notebook that you can write on. Do you want to handwrite all your e-mail? We have all the technology ourselves to do that - we just don't know whether it will be successful.
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    punter
    108 months ago
    AGAIN?!

    This author has nothing, he's just guessing. Maybe he is right, but it's nothing to get your (or my) hopes up about.

    I would like an Apple phone, but listening to Jobs talk at that investors conference makes me rule that one out.
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    the_mole1314
    108 months ago
    The 'columnist' that said this was Devorak, the same guy who hates Apple and wants them to drop out.

    Yeah, that's going to happen.
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    Xero
    108 months ago
    i agree this seems super unlikely. and if it were any decent small size, it would probably screw over a lot of iPod sales...

    hm..
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    azdude
    108 months ago
    Yuk. Apple creates new markets... re-entering a horribly super-saturated one would be bad.
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    revenuee
    108 months ago
    One of these comes out like once a year.... people are still talking about the iPod becoming a PDA soon, or having a video screen .... i would wait till january to get exited
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    Hemingray
    108 months ago
    Unfortunately, that's gotta be complete and utter shash, but if they did make a new Newton, I'd buy one in a flat second.
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    innervision
    108 months ago
    this rumor just won't die!! i don't see it happening though, esp. given Jobs' public statements against PDA's
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    cr2sh
    108 months ago
    Why would Apple release such a product in January? That'd be a perfect Christmas gift..
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    PGant
    108 months ago
    Unsubstantiated claims and idle speculation amounts to little more than lazy reporting or tripe-like filler to satisfy an editor requested word-count for a column.

    Sorry, but this guy has zero credibility in my books. When I see his columns, in don't even stop to read the headline before I turn the page.
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    revenuee
    108 months ago

    Originally posted by cr2sh
    Why would Apple release such a product in January? That'd be a perfect Christmas gift..


    Because with it's crappie shipping these days , it would never get here on Christmas :D ;) :rolleyes:
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