Apple's Big Failure That Gave Us iPhone - Newton

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The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry and put one in nearly everyone’s pocket. But the iPhone didn’t appear from nowhere - it owes much of its inspiration to the ill-fated Apple Newton.

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:04 What IS a Newton?
2:10 Meet the MessagePad 2000
3:44 Surprisingly robust I/O
6:52 Linus learns how to Newton
9:47 Linus gets distracted by games
11:15 Recording a voice memo
11:54 Managing notes and doodling
13:11 It had a real keyboard
15:45 It was never meant for WiFi, but...
18:03 Linus crashes it
18:43 Adding events to the calendar
21:15 There's a NES emulator...
22:29 It was amazing for the time!
23:51 Why did it fail then?
24:21 Newton's legacy lives on in the iPhone

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