![]() ![]() The 2.0 megapixel camera is out-paced by even cheap, crappy little cell phones. While the iPhone 3G’s hardware’s is a nice evolution of the first one, some things are still pretty lame. Hardware compromises still hang up some users. The Newton synced with only a few applications on the Mac and PC. Want notebook tethering? You have to take things into your own hands. ![]() Some of the old ghosts still haunt the current products: Now, this is somewhat unfair, but the Newton OS needed more hardware than was available. Using a distant cousin of the same processor that powered the Newtons, the iPhone is far snappier than the hardware of the 1990s. While they’re limitations and was a brutal NDA that has now been lifted, developers have much more power in the new OS to create powerful applications that can sync with other services and the customer’s desktop. The iPhone development tools are quite robust. The iPhone has yet to be open to this, but the touch-based OS is so good, I don’t see it is a need. I used to prop mine up at an angle and use the keyboard to answer emails or type class notes. The Newton was a hybrid- it used a stylus with handwriting recognition that was very poor until later models, but there was an external keyboard, which was great for longer sessions. Having used both (a MessagePad 2100 got me through college, and yes, it wasn’t that long ago), it is clear Apple learned from the mistakes of the Newton: Nowadays, when people think of Apple’s mobile development platform, the iPhone comes to mind. He cites reasons as the physical size of the Newtons (too big for a pocket, too small for a bag), battery consumption, poor APIs for developers to sync their applications, and more. But unlike now*, Apple products of that era were often great, but had one or two fatal flaws that prevented them from actually being practical to use.” “The bottom line was that Apple created something really cool and almost usable with the Newton. The early models were plagued with slow hardware and rough software ( made famous forever in a comic strip), but at the end of the series (with the MessagePad 2000 & 2100 models), Apple had the kinks worked out.īut it was too late. The Newton was Apple’s first foray into the PDA/handheld computer, and frankly, it was not a bad attempt at all. The article discusses the failure of Apple’s Newton project of the early 1990s. I ran across an article today on Roughly Drafted titled “Newton Lessons for Apple’s New Platform.” It’s an interesting read, especially considering it’s two years old. ![]()
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