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To: soup who wrote (8998)3/2/1998 9:24:00 PM
From: Musubi   of 213174
 
http://www.walletware.com/FutureMessagePads.html

Hi Soup,

I read that article and many others. The point that I haven't seen addressed is as I wrote, how K-12 educators will ultimately respond. These future MessagePads might be great and be infinitely better than the Newton OS-based products but when it comes to spending money, we will have to justify why the eMates that we JUST bought needs to be replaced with the MacOS-based ones. Its not as simple as some folks seem to think, that better technology automatically justifies a purchase. And as I mentioned, this cancellation will be INGRAINED in the minds of those who hold the purse strings. That they will next time scrutinize an Apple purchase (and by this, I also mean desktop systems and any Apple based solution). Many of my colleagues have about lost faith and have resigned themselves to the fact that they were let down big time. Since I also own Apple stock, I feel this might be a problem.
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