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To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (17214)	8/25/1998 1:19:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Respond to of 213173

<<There is no break-through unless a better and bigger news is announced. >> When is the next quarterly report? -Bill_H

To: Phillip C. Lee who wrote (17214)	8/25/1998 1:26:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Respond to of 213173

Pen Computing Magazine has article on why Newton was cancelled. It was in the June 98 issue. Apparently, Bill Gates (a very close friend of Steve Jobs) was invited to the release party for Newton OS/2. He saw the future for WinCE and immediately wanted windows products to go there. Jobs at the time, did not feel that Newton could compete with WinCE. He also did not like Newton (a Sculley era project). Newton/eMate were headed for the education market, one of Apple's strongest. Compaq is reputed to be releasing a handheld PC that runs Win95. Gates does not like this. His vision is CE in every handheld. Compaq has the muscle to ignore Gate's dream despite his urgings. Gates offers undisclosed sum with $150 million in stock purchase from Apple under condition that Newton be squashed. Total is reputed to be half billion dollars. Jobs takes it. And the lone gunman was hiding behind the grassy knoll. -Bill_H