The history of Newton start when Apple launched the iPhone, the oldest of the place immediately thought Newton, the PDA sold by the Cupertino Company between 1993 and 1998 with features such as handwriting recognition, sending emails and faxes or a primitive version of tactile gestures that we use today by strokes made with a stylus.

Originally it was called Newton MessagePad, but the name of your operating system, soon became so popular that eventually encompassing both. Along with the above announcement, published in November 1993 Wired magazine, an article appeared which concluded I probably sound…

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“Like the original 128K Macintosh, the Apple Newton has its share of shortcomings, errors and limitations, but still remains an amazing device that heralds a major revolution in personal computing”

Apple Newton used the first four AAA batteries, which gave him not just a great autonomy. Rumors began two years before its release and Apple had it very difficult to meet the high expectations that had been generated. However, many think that was the apple company who sabotaged his own child to be relegated to a complementary role of the Macintosh instead of daring to push it as what John Sculley said, and then CEO of Apple claimed: the reinvention of personal computing.

For much of its development, Newton had a larger screen, more memory and powerful enough to tackle one of the possible uses for which it was designed: the “Scenario of the Architect” as it was called, in the Newton engineers to imagine an architect working in a fast and comfortable with his client doing sketches, refine and modify the house plans to blow stylus.

In the end the revolution was immediate and it was not until the arrival of iPhone in 2007 and to IPAD earlier this year when it was shown that both the technology and users we are finally ready for the next step.

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