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Newton's August 1993 launch set the stage for what would become the iPad and iPhone
Apple's Newton handheld computer was both the company's biggest failure and its greatest peek into the future. More than thirty years after its launch, AppleInsider reminisces about what Newton was, what it meant, and where it went wrong.
Atkinson invited Steve Capps plus Apple legends Andy Hertzfeld, Susan Kare, and Marc Porat to his home for a meeting on March 11, 1990. Marc Porat, who was at Atkinson's March meeting, had been involved since a year before with a separate project to do with making partnerships with Apple and companies i the communications and consumer industries. Newton subsequently went through eight versions of the hardware, and many revisions of its software mostly distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disk before Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 and killed the project.
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