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Apple vs Palm - The ten year battle
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| E2EK1EL |
Just learned something new today ...
The Newton platform was an early personal digital assistant hardware/software platform developed by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.). Developmnent was started in 1989 and officially ended on February 27, 1998. Some electronic engineering and the manufacture of Apple's Newton devices was done in Japan by the Sharp Corporation. Most Newton devices were based on the ARM 610 RISC processor and all featured handwriting recognition software. Most Newton devices were developed and marketed by Apple (this includes the whole MessagePad line and the eMate 300), however other companies, notably Sharp, Motorola, and Digital Ocean, also released their own devices that ran the Newton OS. None were as successful as Apple's devices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
Apple vs Palm 1998 = Palm
Apple vs Palm 2008 = Apple
It's now 1-1 |
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| E2EK1EL |
| WTF is that newton ? It had no chance vs Palm back in the days ... |
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| Abercrombie |
I used to have a Newton!!! When I worked at Future Shop back in the day, we had to go to Newton training at Apple to sell the product better. Selling the product was best if the salesperson had their own. So after the training they offered the $1300 Newton to salespeople for onloy $250 including a memory card with games and software and signing a contract not to sell it for 1 year.
It was a great gadget, and WAY ahead of its time. It took like 8 AA batteries, my NiCad rechargeables (NiMH didn't exist yet) died afterr about 35min, and it went through fresh Energizers in 2.5hours. Expensive as to run.
It was big and bulky, but did fit in my suit's jacket pocket, and was impressive with customers for other uses like collecting contact names. It was able to learn your handwriting to convert your cursive writing to text.
I sold it after a year for $400... the novelty wore off. |
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| SgtFoo |
everything that the iPod touch can do, I was doing with my Palm TX years prior (minus the accelerometer stuff).
Everything the iPhone can do, ppl have been doing with Palm Treo years prior.
It's all just marketing. |
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| jchung52 |
| the ipod was developed by hp |
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| E2EK1EL |
| WOW, thanks for the info dude .... |
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| FunkyCrew |
| aaaaaand yet another Iphone related thread.. |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by jchung52
the ipod was developed by hp |
I had no idea we did... I rmr in 2004, Apple approached us for a couple of reasons to manufacture the Ipod. First they needed to build them faster or more of them because their facilities could not keep up with demand, and we could assist them. Secondly we opened up several new consumer markets for them and more marketing and to better integrate their use with PCs. I'd be interested in your side of the story. |
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| E2EK1EL |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
aaaaaand yet another Iphone related thread.. |
That's pretty naive ... Sorry to burst your bubble, but it's a history lesson about PDAs. |
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| E2EK1EL |
Very ironic you guys brought up the iPod!
The dude who invented the iPod & the iMac got fired from Apple. He was recently hired by Palm to get the company back on their feet. Today, Palm's private investors dumped 100 million to get things rollin'
I hope Palm pulls though this & I don't want them to die. |
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| jchung52 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
I had no idea we did... I rmr in 2004, Apple approached us for a couple of reasons to manufacture the Ipod. First they needed to build them faster or more of them because their facilities could not keep up with demand, and we could assist them. Secondly we opened up several new consumer markets for them and more marketing and to better integrate their use with PCs. I'd be interested in your side of the story. |
well i dunno the whole story.. my previous roomate who worked at hp told me that |
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| Abercrombie |
| Here's another history trivia... Steve Wozniak was working for HP, he came up with the idea of his 'apple' personal computer, and offered the idea and rights to HP. HP said 'not interested' because HP wasn't into computers but more industrial equipment. Steve Wozniak left HP to start Apple with Steve Jobs. |
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