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Title: Before the iPhone and before the iPad, there was the Newton Written by: savio on Jul 20, 2013 (https://biology-forums.com/gallery/47/46687_20_07_13_11_17_34.jpeg) (https://biology-forums.com/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=12630) The MessagePad, released in 1993, was the first in a series of Newton devices to be developed and sold on the market. The 1.4 pound physical device was collaboratively manufactured by Apple and Sharp. The MessagePad packed a 20MHz ARM 610 RISC processor, 640 kilobytes of RAM, and a 336x240 monochrome LCD touch screen with stylus and handwriting recognition support. It was powered by four AAA batteries. It ran Newton OS version 1.05 and cost $699.99. The Newton platform was axed from the Apple product line for two main reasons. (1) The early Newton OS that shipped with the original MessagePad proved to be not so user friendly, especially when it came to the unpredictable handwriting recognition software. The press and other media outlets (including television and comic strips) panned and poked fun at the recognizer’s inability to pick up on simple words. (2) When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he found that the Newton platform was simply unprofitable. Some sources say that Apple sunk nearly $1 billion into Newton, and Jobs could no longer justify this expense. He believed it would be more profitable in the long run to invest Apple’s resources solely in the development of the Mac OS and Macintosh desktop and laptop computers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxZJsGuUfew Comments: Maybe just before the iPad. This thing didn't have the capability to phone call. Written by: duddy on Jul 23, 2013 This is the only blog that I know of where you actually learn new things! Written by: goji.go on Jul 20, 2013 |