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Originally Posted by torifile
...what has Apple released that seems to address an issue that we don't have?
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I no longer really consider the Apple of the 90s a part of today, at least in a products sense. The 90s were a series of general misfires. Today, Apple seems to bend markets, not jump headlong into something that's so new people don't know what to do with it. To me, they rethink products and make them more user friendly.
I'll probably get slammed for this, but I think the Newton was a bit ambitious for its time, too. It was a harbinger of things to come, but the tech just wasn't far enough alone to really have a market for a device its size, weight, and capability (or lack thereof). I have two of them that I play with every once in a while-- like 'em a lot, but realize more and more how they just were off the mark when they first came out.