Apple/Palm Possibility?
mr.mark: thanks a million!
formal announcement from apple about producing a handheld?
not that i am aware of. here is an article (from 16 months ago) that addresses the subject...
"Steve Jobs today left open the possibility of selling a handheld computer under the Apple brand, though he said the company would not develop one of its own"
Apple ponders portable strategy
By Jim Davis
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
March 24, 1999, 7:10 p.m. PT
news.cnet.com
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and then, three months later...
Apple-Palm handheld project delayed
Jim Davis and Michael Kanellos
CNET News.com
6/29/1999 02:30 PM
"Apple continues to ponder coming out with multicolored
Palm handhelds under its own name, although the project
has been put on the back burner to ensure that its new
consumer portable gets out the door."
abcnews.go.com
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about one year ago...
Apple/Palm Deal Nears
By Kasper Jade (Kasper@AppleInsider.com)
July 12, 1999
"Jobs is a proven fan of Palm and the PalmOS
platform."
appleinsider.com
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and looking at a more recent article (6/20/00) we find...
Cease and Desist, Apple-Palm Fans!
"You can't wait for Apple and Palm's new PDA, can you?
Dream on! It ain't gonna happen."
lowendmac.net
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we all remember steve jobs' quote during a macworld keynote address in early january 2000, when "he introduced Palm CEO Carl Yankowski, telling the audience that Apple had been 'doing a lot of work with these guys lately'", don't we?
wired.com
and more...
"Palm officials told MacCentral that company could not comment on "rumors or speculation," but said 'The Palm desktop and HotSync applications are already included in Mac OS 9, and our team is actively working with Apple to post them to the future Mac OS X.'"
maccentral.com
"While doing some research, our crack team of patent attorneys stumbled
this little nugget in a filing from Apple:
Part of the patent includes a note about improved handwriting recognition.
Also worth noting is the built-in speaker (or is it microphone?) which would
be a killer tool for IBM's ViaVoice and/or a new class of input device that
could obviate the need to learn grafitti"
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