In September 2004, I went to the World Wide Newton Conference in Paris. A chap called Adam Tow gave a talk where he showed us an email he got from Steve Jobs a

In September 2004, I went to the World Wide Newton Conference in Paris. A chap called Adam Tow gave a talk where he showed us an email he got from Steve Jobs about the future of the Newton. Basically, one day in 1997 or 1998 Adam was walking past Homma's Brown Rice Sushi in Palo Alto, and saw Steve Jobs getting some takeout. Adam wanted to ask him about the fate of the Newton, but managed to hold his tongue. Instead, he went home and emailed jobs using the subject line "Homma's Brown Rice Sushi", because he figured that since he was just there he'd open the email. It worked! Steve replied, and they got into a discussion on the future of the Newton. You can see the exchange here on slide 61: http://wwnc.newtontalk.net/2004/program/adamtow/slides-adamtow.pdf http://wwnc.newtontalk.net/2004/program/adamtow/slides-adamt...