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To: Musubi who wrote (8997)	3/2/1998 8:47:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

Gloom and doom for the Newton MessagePad? ÿ Or would a MacOS-based MessagePad be good for future MessagePad users? >Having been involved with the Newton industry as Newton software publishers and developers since 1993, we (WalletWare, Inc. and Balcones Software) feel compelled to attempt to shed some positive light on what Apple may be attempting to do in the handheld and palm PC industry. And if our guesses are correct, it's not all bad, folks!! < walletware.com

To: Musubi who wrote (8997)	3/2/1998 10:35:00 PM
From: Marc Newman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

Musabi, thanks for sharing your concerns about the eMate termination. Guess this just goes under the category of "Yet Another Tough Decision Apple Had To Make." A longer list than we all would like. Let me ask you this. Does the fact that the eMate still does everything it did when you bought it, and the fact that it works with pcs and macs, make its discontinuation a little less troublesome after you've thought about it a bit? And more importantly, would a healthy Apple Computer that keeps on delivering more affordable, faster systems overcome the negativity you and your colleagues feel as a result of the Newton/eMate decision? Hopefully you will be getting a lot more slack from the higher ups if Apple keeps A) making a profit and B) delivering high performance systems at mid-range prices. The G3 servers are perfect for schools too, are they not? I'm not too happy about the loss of the eMate either. Marc

To: Musubi who wrote (8997)	3/3/1998 11:23:00 AM
From: BillHoo	Respond to of 213173

<<we had to fight an uphill battle to justify the purchase of the eMate.>> Yes, it's a major blow to the platform, but I think there will still be software for it. Also, most of the Newton software out there seems to have been developed as shareware. So I don't think support for it will be completely non-existent. Like Reagan said, "We all have to take care of each other and tighten our belts a bit like our forefathers during the great depression." Newton/Emate support groups should increase their activity and print directories of heavy Newton/Emate strongholds so that developers would know who to contact and what the needs are. In an education environment, perhaps students themselves could learn to program the Newton and it could be a class project to develop their own software. You'd be suprised what kids can do! I've seen some amazing stuff developed on Hypercard by 7th and 8th graders. ' -Bill_H