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Article #129Re: Consider another Palmtop over the Apple Newton
From: Wendy R. Williams
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 00:00
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Hardy Macia wrote: Rather large Snip... > > Microsoft has already failed once at trying to produce a PDA device. MS > jumped on the Apple bandwagon as usual when the Newton first came out and > then they left hundreds of developers in the cold when they decided that > they couldn't create the same quality product as Apple did. And, HP just > lost a class action suit when they were charged with using used computer > parts in computers there were selling as new. I can't let that statement go without a reply...It WAS NOT HP It was Packard Bell. People get the two confused because Hewlett PACKARD adn PACKARD Bell have similar names (PB did that on purpose to get some of HP's Rep) Hewlett packard is one of the finest companies out there (they have their share of problems, but the recent Suit against Packard Bell was not one of them.) Thanks, Sorry if I was raving.... Wendy I like, Apple. Apple might > be going thru a lot of rough times, but their products do work well and if > they only had Microsofts marketing machine then they could have owned the > world like MS. > > -- > Hardy Macia * Catamount Software * Newton Software Development > (802) 372-9512 * hardy@catamount.com * http://www.catamount.com > << Aloha, PocketMoney, MPG, Silk, Namigator and more...>> > > Harry Browne for President - http://www.harrybrowne96.org/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 104306,f85cf184a135e8da X-Google-Attributes: gid104306,public X-Google-Thread: 10fab3,f85cf184a135e8da X-Google-Attributes: gid10fab3,public X-Google-Thread: 109e18,f85cf184a135e8da X-Google-Attributes: gid109e18,public X-Google-Thread: f6090,f85cf184a135e8da X-Google-Attributes: gidf6090,public X-Google-Thread: 10db40,f85cf184a135e8da X-Google-Attributes: gid10db40,public From: "Wendy R. Williams" <maeven@mercury.net> Subject: Re: Consider another Palmtop over the Apple Newton Date: 1996/09/12 Message-ID: <323809EF.5D02@mercury.net> X-Deja-AN: 180368755 references: <841977070.4807@dejanews.com> <hardy-0609960843210001@news.together.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Koss-Olinger Financial Group mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: maeven@mercury.net newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,biz.marketplace.computers.mac,hk.forsale x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I)