There was a huge amount of talk about PDAs before the Apple Newton.
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When comparisons were initially made between the Apple Newton and the original Palm Pilot, two of the most striking differences were size and input.
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It promised a new way of interacting with your data, with new input methods and slick advertising. but the reality of the Apple Newton was a step away from what was promised.
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Apple's Newton OS was one of the first operating systems to save everything created by default.
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From the apple falling on Newton's head to batteries made out of root extract, scientists have long turned to nature for ideas.
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Brass admits that many of these concepts are not new, with attempts at tablet PCs beginning in the 1980s and running through Apple's Newton computer.
That's not entirely true, since Apple did introduce the Newton at CES in 1992, but perhaps the CEA wants to forget this fact.
Mr Bastiaens has a slightly checkered record he was partly responsible for Newton, Apple's failed hand-held computer but he is convinced that speech applications will change the way that people live and work before then.
There's a tale that goes with this invention, as good as Newton's apple.
The Apple-1 computer came with a typed note from Jobs as well as a box stamped with the company's original logo -- an apple falling on Sir Isaac Newton.
There he worked on projects with Michael Jackson, Dave Brubeck, The Cure, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Mel Torme, Sam Shepard, David Byrne, Norman Mailer, Apple Computer (Knowledge Navigator, Newton) and many others.
It appears that gravity, the same pesky force of nature that caused the edible variety of an apple to fall on Sir Isaac Newton's head, is causing one of Wall Street's tech darlings to fall as well.
History is littered with examples of products created before their time, from Ford's Edsel to the Osborne PC years ahead of Apple, and Apple's own notorious flop with the Newton (the iPhone's ancestor).
Apple itself launched a pen-based tablet computer, the Newton, in 1993, but it was a flop.
We have a cultural picture in our head of Isaac Newton as an upstanding British gentlemen who discovered gravity by having an apple fall on his head.
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