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My parents saw the Newton while out at the mall. Mom heard the price and thought it was quite reasonable... at least until dad told her that "seven ninety-nine"

My parents saw the Newton while out at the mall. Mom heard the price and thought it was quite reasonable... at least until dad told her that "seven ninety-nine" meant $799, not $7.99. Guess her impression of its value was closer to how consumers valued it than what Apple was charging. To be fair, many douchebags did make their use of the cell phone very conspicuous to show off and did so in places that traditionally had not been subject to telephone chatter. We went through a similar cycle when Bluetooth headsets were first introduced. Now we're accustomed to seeing people walking around, seemingly talking to themselves.

aa-jv 2y ago
The NewtonOS in modern hardware would be awesome. I wonder if anyone has a plan to do that as well, now that the Mac Classic iPad has been manifest ...
- sourcepluck 2y ago
  Like this, maybe you mean? https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein They got the name right, anyway
  - aa-jv 2y ago
    Oh, that is definitely very nice, and I have added it to my "Hacking Time" list of things to do .. thanks for that! Would be nice to see it running on a pocket-friendly rPi hat, akin to the pwnagotchi albeit with a touch screen ..
- pjmlp 2y ago
  And most likely would have a proper JIT as well, the last version had a prototype that would only do some basic compilation.