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True, but regardless, a not inconsiderable part of the value of a Newton died when the platform came to the end of it's life. A betamax machine or an HD-DVD pla
by msabalau 14y ago
True, but regardless, a not inconsiderable part of the value of a Newton died when the platform came to the end of it's life. A betamax machine or an HD-DVD player may still exist, but that does not mean a lot for their owner.
- CurtMonash 14y agoThe people who bought VHS instead of Betamax aren't getting a lot of value from their systems at this point either. And I've bought, used, and thrown away multiple DVD players over the years.
- hugofirth 14y agoPoint of order: the hypothetical HD-DVD player to which @msabalau refers is not a standard DVD player, as you seem to have assumed. HD-DVD was a format iteration meant to compete with Blu-ray. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD
- CurtMonash 14y agoOh. I was carelessly assuming it was a competitor to standard DVDs. Thanks for the correction, and no worries. I'll probably throw out multiple Blu-Ray players before I'm done as well. :)
- Evbn 14y agoPoint of information: that was a point of information, not a point of order. A point of order would be something like pointing out that someone replied under the wrong parent.
- hugofirth 14y agoHaha - fair enough. Thanks for the correction's correction.
- CurtMonash 14y agoIsn't it a point of order to say that somebody incorrectly called a point of order?
- rhizome 14y agoI believe this to be a category error. The Newton is not a technology with a format that died with it. If it was no longer possible to press the buttons or use the screen on a Newton, or that you could only create lists of things that existed in the 90s, the comparison would be more apt.
- msabalau 14y agoThere was some 3rd party development of applications, and presumably there would have been more if the Newton had thrived. But, fair point, it was mostly a product, and just potentially a platform.