Apple Expands Breadth of Newton Solutions with Greater PC Integration and
Enhanced Development Environment for Newton 2.0

Newton Developers Show a Range of New Business, Communications Solutions at
Macworld

CUPERTINO, California--January 8, 1996--Apple Computer, Inc. continues to
enhance Newton 2.0, its latest version of the Newton operating system,
with a suite of products that improves the integration of Newton PDAs with
both Mac OS- and Windows-based personal computers. The company is also
offering tools that provide a more powerful development environment for
third-party developers. These enhancements expand the scope for the
development of Newton solutions and are being announced at Macworld
Exposition, being held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco,
January 9-12.

Newton 2.0 is a major revision of the Newton operating system and is a
response to more than two years of extensive customer feedback and user
testing. It is designed to advance the Newton platform by providing
improved organizational and communications capabilities, as well as the
ability to integrate Newton PDAs with cross-platform desktop systems and
enterprise environments.

Desktop Integration

Several new products from Apple will help simplify the process of
exchanging information between a Newton PDA and a Mac OS- or Windows-
based personal computer.

Newton Backup Utility (NBU)

Both the Mac and Windows version of the Newton Backup Utility are now
available online (please refer to editor's note for online locations). NBU
allows customers to back up and restore Newton 2.0 information to a
personal computer and also installs software packages from a PC to a
Newton PDA. NBU also allows owners of previous versions of the Newton OS
to move their existing Newton data to the 2.0 platform. The online
prerelease versions of NBU are available free of charge.

Newton Press

Because of the overwhelming interest in Newton Press, a new software
application from Apple that provides a drag-and-drop method for the
creation of electronic books for Newton PDAs from files on a personal
computer, Apple is distributing a prerelease version to customers online.
Newton Press for the Mac OS is available now and the prerelease Windows
version is expected to be available early this year (please refer to
editor's note for online locations). The online prerelease versions of
Newton Press are also available free of charge.

Newton books are created by simply dropping text files onto the Newton
Press icon, which automatically formats the read-only document so it can
be easily viewed on a Newton PDA. Documents such as travel itineraries,
meeting agendas, price lists, and maps are readily available to reference,
annotate, fax or print.

Third-Party PC Integration Products

In addition to the integration products from Apple, the company has been
working with its third-party developers to offer customers a wide variety
of productivity solutions for the Newton platform, the following of which
are being demonstrated in the Apple booth at Macworld (South Hall, Room
103).

Business and Information Management
-- ACT! for Newton from Symantec Corporation
-- Pocket Quicken for Newton and Pocket Quicken Connect from Intuit Inc.
-- Meeting Maker XP for Newton from ON Technology
-- FileMaker Pro 3.0 Companion for Newton from Claris Corporation
-- Now Synchronize v. 1.5 for Newton from Now Software

Custom Forms Development
-- Informed Designer from Shana Corporation
-- FormLogic 1.1 from Wright Strategies

Two-way Wireless Messaging and Internet Access
-- Wireless messaging services using:
   - the WyndMAIL service on the RAM network with the Megahertz
     AllPoints modem
   - the RadioMail service on the ARDIS network with the Motorola
     Personal Messenger 100D card
-- NetHopper from AllPen Software

Enhanced Development Environment

New developer tools and utilities enable a whole new range of solutions for
customers to use with their Newton PDAs. A vital feature for customers is
the ability to synchronize Newton data with a specific application on
their personal computer or in an enterprise environment. This is made
possible with a key technology called Desktop Integration Libraries
(DILs), a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that developers
use to create direct links between applications on Newton PDAs and PCs so
that data can be synchronized seamlessly between them.

For example, customers with either a Mac OS- or Windows-based PC can now
synchronize their personal schedule kept in ON Technology's Meeting Maker
at the office, with the schedule on their Newton PDA, keeping their daily
and weekly agenda close at hand throughout the day. If a change is made on
the Newton PDA, the new information can then be directly synchronized back
to the main calendar.

The following products incorporate DILs technology and will be shown in the
Apple booth at Macworld.

 ACT! for Newton by Symantec Corp.
 Meeting Maker XP for Newton by ON Technology
 FileMaker Pro 3.0 Companion for Newton by Claris Corp.
 Now Synchronize v. 1.5 for Newton by Now Software, Inc.

Developer Tools

The developer community is a critical part of Newton's success and the new
tools introduced today play a key role in providing developers with a
superior development environment. The new tools include:

Newton Toolkit (NTK) version 1.6 for Mac OS-based computers. Along with
support for Newton 2.0, NTK 1.6 is also optimized for Power Macintosh and
delivers additional debugging tools, enabling software developers to
create more high performance applications for the Newton platform than for
any other PDA platform.

In an effort to broaden its developer base and to address strong demand for
Newton software development tools for the Windows platform, a prerelease
version of NTK 1.6 for Windows is being distributed to selected developers
and is expected to be available by mid year 1996.

Apple Computer, Inc., a recognized pioneer and innovator in the information
industry, creates powerful solutions based on easy-to- use personal
computers, servers, peripherals, software, on-line services, and personal
digital assistants. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple
(NASDAQ:AAPL) develops, manufactures, licenses and markets products,
technologies and services for the business, education, consumer,
scientific, engineering and government markets in over 140 countries.

NOTE TO EDITORS: Newton Backup Utility (Mac OS and Windows versions) and
Newton Press (prerelease Mac OS version) are available online through the
following paths:

World Wide Web
http://www.info.apple.com/newton/solutions

America Online
Newton Resource Center (Keyword "Newton")
Info from Apple

Compuserve
Go "Newton"
Browse Libraries
Library # 23 Info from Apple

eWorld
World of Newton (Shortcut "Newton")
Newton News & Information
Newton 2.0 Information

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