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John Gruber

@gparker @NanoRaptor I’ve always thought this was the biggest of all problems with the Newton. Kind of ironic too given Apple’s eventual obsession with miniaturization after the NeXT reunification. Never again.

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James Dempsey

@gruber @gparker @NanoRaptor Although I think Apple Vision Pro definitely has a case of ‘not miniaturized enough’.

John Gruber

@jamesdempsey @gparker @NanoRaptor It does. But imagine what a similarly specced device from any other company would look like or weigh. You might need a monopod for support. Like:

Helge Heß

@jamesdempsey @gruber @gparker @NanoRaptor Or the iPhone. Or the MacBook “Air”. Feels like bigger is better nowadays.

Lucien Dupont

@gruber @gparker @NanoRaptor There were a large amount of folks when I worked in the group that wanted to do a smaller one, but for reasons I don’t remember and weren’t a part of they went larger.

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