The Apple Newton pedated Microsoft's crappy attempt at a tablet by several years. Both were simply ahead of their time. Timing is quite important in marketing success.
What Jobs achieved was real and substantial, despite what his many critics like to believe. Among other great things, Apple saved my IRA in spite of the devastation it suffered because of WT&T, Lucent and other former giants of industry. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > On Jun 21, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote: > >> >> >> Thu Jun 21 13:21:21 EDT 2012 >> Larry Colen wrote: >> >>> On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:39 AM, Igor Roshchin wrote: >>> >>>> http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/apple?before=1340251077 >> >> (And I meant to provide the direct link to the image >> http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5y878Y9fj1rsi9gfo1_1280.jpg ) >> >>>> >>>> (I am not quite getting the reference to Picard, - but I guess >>>> I don't know Star Trek series that well) >>> >>> In Star Trek TNG, back in the late 80's something that looks basically >>> like an iPad was the standard data display, computer interface device. >> >> That part is clear. It was the caption for the 4th image that was not >> quite clear to me. >> While trying to google, I saw some similar phrasing, e.g. in >> this image: >> http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bitch-please-those-shoes-with-that-top.png >> So, I was suspecting that this expression might have some reference to some >> episode or phrase of Picard, but couldn't find that reference > > Nope, part of the humor is in the fact that Picard would never phrase it like > that. > > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
