I Hear Ford’s Bringing Back the Edsel, Too.
by John Paczkowski
Posted on September 26, 2007 at 1:51 PM PT
Well this ought to give all those Newton fans who demonstrated in the parking lot of Apple’s Cupertino campus the day the company killed the device in February 1998 a bit of satisfaction. “Well respected sources” (whatever that means) tell Apple Insider that Apple is hard at work on a modern-day Newton project.
“Like iPhone and the iPod Touch, the new device runs an embedded version of Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard operating system,” Apple Insider reports. “Externally, the multi-touch PDA has been described by sources as an ultra-thin ’slate’ akin to the iPhone, about 1.5 times the size and sporting an approximate 720×480 high-resolution display that comprises almost the entire surface of the unit. The device is further believed to leverage multi-touch concepts which have yet to gain widespread adoption in Apple’s existing multi-touch products–the iPhone and iPod touch–like drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste.”
Sounds like a slick device–assuming it’s not vaporware. But really, you think Apple has time for such distractions when it’s doing all that it can to get the Tablet Mac ready for Macworld?
