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Apple’s Newton Was Ahead of Its Time — and Flopped. Will History Repeat Itself?
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It’s been 25 years since Apple discontinued the Newton, a handheld computer with a stylus. Apple is once again about to launch into a new product category, but has it learned lessons from Newton?
0:00 Apple Discontinues the Newton 25 Years Ago
1:18 The History of The Apple Newton MessagePad
3:29 Hands On with the Newton MessagePad 2100
7:18 The Death of the Apple Newton
8:25 Is Apple’s AR Headset the Next Newton?
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That why people give apple a lawsuit
I loved it, but I couldn't afford it.
For those who need a translation. When Bridget said, "This is the early stuff, this is history," what she really said is … This s#%t is old!
Newton was the first and last apple product I bought (~600 dollars). I gave it away so I did not have to put it in the trash. Next and last product …iphone 3…sold back to phone company for $300. Both products where well built but too expensive and extremely poor performance!
Put it on eBay. Somebody will pay seven figures for it!
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this report is typical of ignorant reporters who follow apple ,,, ((without Newton we might have different tec in out pockets))
Apple “discovered” ARM, and on September 8, 1990, the company bought a 43% stake in ARM, which was split off from Acorn and subsequently renamed Advanced RISC Machines. Apple would use the ARM6 chip in the Newton.
. (ARM is now the most popular processor in the world, powering most smartphones and tablets.)
I used to own and sell IBM palm pilots and major software licenses for Software Spectrum (now insight) and then I paid AUSTRALIAN $1500 in 1999 for a colour HP PDA that was used in the James Bond movie The World is not enough to turn off a oil pipeline bomb in the same year.
I never had a Newton, but I had several iterations of Palm Pilots, and I started my smartphone journey with a Handspring utilizing their Springboard with a cellphone insert. Then I switched to Treos when they came out. I had a friend who worked in educational sales for Apple back then, and he had a Newton. It was cool, but like you said, it just didn't have enough features to justify such a high price. Fun video looking back at history. 👍
hey cnet, was this segment also written by an AI?
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So annoying and cringy. The woman. Newton is still cool. She had to make this video rather about herself, than Newton itself.
Newton Pro Max lol
I was a Palm Pilot guy for many years and I was able to keep some of the data such as calendar and contact information and transfer to subsequent devices including to all of my iOS devices.
Then again I'm an old guy – Timex Sinclair, Commodore Vic 20, Lotus 123, Wordperfect, Amiga 1000 w/a 300 baud modem
Terrible homage to a tech icon.
She needs to relax. Her “energy” can be grating. She seems frantic, like she just had 5 cups of coffee.
I had one of these! Oh how times has changed…
Oh I definitely used Pdas, all kinds. Palms all models. I thought it was fantastic when I sent my first email!! Being able to see the gadgeteer site on the internet was fantastic. My palms were incredibly useful , I even bought the CE windows versions from other companies. So expensive!! $500. Mine still work and I have the first netbook eeepc ( still works). Great video,please do more vintage gadgets
This is the technology of the USSR.
When you drag an item off the macOS Safari bookmarks bar and let go, the deletion uses what my friends called the “Newton poof”!
the newton was also expensive for its time. palm pilots + variants were far more affordable, portable and had different accessory options and support. mine had a backlight button, a modem attachment, led flashlight attachment, dock stands, cables, styluses, screen protectors, and a third party “gun” style holster. there were handsprings that had back attachments. there was an “m” budget model. you can sync across devices. all of this together cost much less than the stock msrp price of the newton. so for the price of apple products, even then, i was able to do much more without reaching the cost of one apple newton.
This video takes me back. I am 39 and when I was in the 5th or the 6th grade my dad came home and gave me the Newton. We were looking for ways for me to write notes in class since I had bad handwriting. Enter the Newton. The handwriting translation aspect of it was not that great. But you could peck and hunt with the keyboard and I became good at that. Later I was given the keyboard attachment and that made things better for me. I had a golf game and something else.
The other difficulty I had was uploading my notes to the computer. The newton was also featured in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. I remember hearing about the guy who created the newton killed himself.
I have always said that the Newton was the grandfather of what we have today.
I had each version. They were great. I was the coolest kid in high school.
I had several Palm Pilots and used them frequently. Funny to see someone not a teen "marveling" at old tech. Try a 300 Baud modem on a C64 and get back to me.
Idk why people are so mean to Bridget. I love her reporting.
Don't mock what u don't understand.
You've inspired me to dig out my Palm Pilot
My translucent 110 is somewhere? Yes a clear case Newton.
I remember the cancellation. A week or so before Bristol Meyers Squibb had decided to roll the devices out to their sales field to use for signed doctor cards (required when the reps leave samples of prescription drugs.)
I only ever used the Newton slightly due to being on their help desk when they were evaluating it. I later got a Palm IIIx which I used as an electric calendar, address book and notepad for years.