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● 02.08.10

●● Apple’s Newton Executive Negative About Apple’s Latest Attempts at a Shinier Newton

Posted in Apple, DRM, FSF at 8:24 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Apple’s iPad still faces sometimes-overwhelming criticism, even from the company’s own supporters and existing/former staff

AS WE have shown before, Apple’s iPad disappointed [1, 2, 3, 4]. Even keen supporters of Apple thought it was a bad product. Now we have it confirmed even by Apple people; to be exact, it’s the former Apple executive behind the Newton:

=> 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ↺ the former Apple executive behind the Newton

The iPad is too big and lacks communication capabilities, argued the former Apple executive who oversaw the demise of the company’s iconic-but-flawed Newton more than a decade ago.

Yikes.

Anyway, the FSF’s educational campaign about the iPad’s effects on people’s rights continues to receive publicity and one person calls the iPad “a technological faux pas”:

=> ↺ continues to receive publicity | ↺ calls the iPad

Which is rather disappointing, considering the opportunity that Apple had to launch the iPad with Mac OS X and be a truly powerful computing device.

Time.com writes about the iPad’s shortcomings. This product from Apple seems like a miss, not a hit, but the important thing is that it teaches people how standards-hostile and customer-hostile products from Apple have become. █

=> ↺ iPad’s shortcomings

“Microsoft does not hesitate to use its operating system monopoly power and application program dominance to try to eliminate competition.”

–Apple Computer Senior VP Avadis Tevanian Jr.

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