Friday, September 28, 2007

Apple reaches into past

Leave it to Apple to resurrect the dead.

MacNewsWorld: Apple Gearing Up for a Newton Take 2?

A new incarnation of the ill-fated Newton personal digital assistant could see the light of day, as reports suggest Apple is deep into the development stages of creating a PDA with multitouch features. The minitablet device will run an embedded version of Mac OS X Leopard and is expected to hit the shelves next year, according to reports.

1 comment:

baron said...

Apple already has a PDA, it's called the iPhone and it already runs Mac OSX (a stripped down version of Leopard). Steve Jobs even said that the delay of Leopard till October was b/c he needed the Leopard engineers to work on the iPhone.

As for the Newton I had one and it was a great device. If Apple's smart they'll incorporate some of the gesture commands into the iPhone.

Apple already uses the Newton handwriting technology in their OS, it's called Inkwell and has been in the Tiger OS for awhile now. It's even being used in a Mac tablet computer being sold, just Google 'ModBook'

I think the more important story was the rumor that Apple is coming out with a super-slim laptop based on a solid-state memory instead of a mechanic hard drive. This is important because people would love it and I bet Palm got wind of this and killed their Foleo project because of it. How could they compete against a full-blown laptop the size of their Foleo?

And for full disclosure, yes, I'm an Apple stockholder.