Apple Newton

Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
by Adam Fisher
Published 9 Jul 2018

But the fact that Garry Trudeau made the Newton into a recurring punch line in his nationally syndicated comic strip, Doonesbury, didn’t help much, either. Mike Doonesbury: “I am writing a test sentence.” Apple Newton: Siam fighting atomic sentry. Mike Doonesbury: “I am writing a test sentence.” Apple Newton: Ian is riding a taste sensation. Mike Doonesbury: “I am writing a test sentence!!” Apple Newton: I am writing a test sentence! Mike Doonesbury: “Catching on?” Apple Newton: Egg freckles? Apple had rushed to market and paid the price. General Magic, meanwhile, wasn’t going to make the same mistake that Sculley did. Instead, they made the opposite mistake.

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You
by Eli Pariser
Published 11 May 2011

In Cupertino, almost exactly a decade before the iPhone, Apple introduced the Newton, a “personal desktop assistant” whose core selling point was the agent lurking dutifully just under its beige surface. As it turned out, the new intelligent products bombed. In chat groups and on e-mail lists, there was practically an industry of snark about Bob. Users couldn’t stand it. PC World named it one of the twenty-five worst tech products of all time. And the Apple Newton didn’t do much better: Though the company had invested over $100 million in developing the product, it sold poorly in the first six months of its existence. When you interacted with the intelligent agents of the midnineties, the problem quickly became evident: They just weren’t that smart. Now, a decade and change later, intelligent agents are still nowhere to be seen.

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Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
by Ken Kocienda
Published 3 Sep 2018

Accessed November 14, 2017. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crackberry 4. Kenneth Kocienda et al., Keyboards for portable electronic devices. U.S. Patent 7,694,231, filed January 5, 2006, and issued April 6, 2010. 7. QWERTY 1. Mat Honan, “Remembering the Apple Newton’s Prophetic Failure and Lasting Impact,” Wired, August 5, 2013. https://www.wired.com/2013/08/remembering-the-apple-newtons-prophetic-failure-and-lasting-ideals/. Accessed November 14, 2017. 2. Wikipedia contributors, “International Talk Like a Pirate Day,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=International_Talk_Like_a_Pirate_Day&oldid=831048898.

Illustrated Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe
by Stephen Hawking
Published 1 Aug 2009

This said that each body inthe universe was attracted toward every other body by a force which wasstronger the more massive the bodies and the closer they were to each other.It was the same force which caused objects to fall to the ground. The story thatNewton was hit on the head by an apple is almost certainly apocryphal. AllNewton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat ina contemplative mood, and was occasioned by the fall of an apple. Newton went on to show that, according to his law, gravity causes the moonto move in an elliptical orbit around the Earth and causes the Earth and theplanets to follow elliptical paths around the sun. The Copernican model gotrid of Ptolemy’s celestial spheres, and with them the idea that the universe hada natural boundary.

Design of Business: Why Design Thinking Is the Next Competitive Advantage
by Roger L. Martin
Published 15 Feb 2009

Looking back on the dot-com crash, Michael Dell, founder of Dell, argues that little has changed. “Still today in our industry, if you go to a trade show, you walk around and you will find a lot of technology for which there is no problem that exists,” he says. “It’s like, ‘Hey, look at this, we’ve got a great solution and there is no problem to solve here.’ ” 6 Think of the Apple Newton, the world’s first portable data assistant. Launched in 1993, it utterly flopped. According RIM’s Lazaridis, it was a failure of abduction. “It had no future,” he argues. “What problem did it solve? What value did it create? It was a research project. What could you do with it that you couldn’t do with a laptop?

A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
Published 16 Aug 2011

It was this same force that caused objects to fall to the ground. (The story that Newton was inspired by an apple hitting his head is almost certainly apocryphal. All Newton himself ever said was that the idea of gravity came to him as he sat “in a contemplative mood” and “was occasioned by the fall of an apple.”) Newton went on to show that, according to his law, gravity causes the moon to move in an elliptical orbit around the earth and causes the earth and the planets to follow elliptical paths around the sun. The Copernican model got rid of Ptolemy’s celestial spheres, and with them, the idea that the universe had a natural boundary.

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman
Published 22 Nov 2016

The idea was to try to create a device that combined the Palm Pilot—at that time basically a combination calendar, Filofax, address book, and day planner, with note-taking capabilities and a wireless Web-based text browser—with a 3G cell phone. That way when you called up a phone number in the Palm Pilot address book, you could just click on it and the cell phone would dial it. And with the same device you could surf the Internet. Jacobs approached Apple to see if they were interested in partnering with Qualcomm on this, using the Apple Newton, their Palm competitor. But Apple—this was just before Steve Jobs came back—turned them down and eventually killed the Newton. So Jacobs went to Palm and together they ended up making the first “smartphone”—the Qualcomm pdQ 1900—in 1998. It was the first phone designed not just to relay text messages, but to combine digital wireless mobile broadband connectivity to the Internet with a touchscreen and an open operating system that eventually ran downloadable apps.

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The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More With Less
by Richard Koch
Published 15 Dec 1999

Don’t plan to the nth degree on the first day. The return on investment usually follows the 80/20 rule: 80 percent of the benefits will be found in the simplest 20 percent of the system, and the final 20 percent of the benefits will come from the most complex 80 percent of the system.7 Apple used the 80/20 Principle in developing the Apple Newton Message Pad, an electronic personal organizer: The Newton engineers took advantage of a slightly modified version [of 80/20]. They found that .01 percent of a person’s vocabulary was sufficient to do 50 percent of the things you want to do with a small handheld computer.8 Increasingly, software is substituting for hardware, using the 80/20 Principle.

Microserfs
by Douglas Coupland
Published 14 Feb 1995

NG 1: I don't know. Business class only, I think. I guess it would be cooler if you could play with the 13-year old kids back in coach . . . SEGA should send group testers on flights and do market research that way! (Titters.) Karla and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes, but were impressed. APPLE! NEWTON! JAL FIRST CLASS! I don't have frequent flyer miles on any airline. Loser. MONDAY Anatole's Lexus has a vertical slot in its dashboard. It's a coffee cup holder that pops out and does this flip-flip-flip origami thing - whoosh-whoosh-whoosh - and becomes horizontal. Karla and I went out around sunset and had coffees and sat in the car.

The Clockwork Universe: Saac Newto, Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern WorldI
by Edward Dolnick
Published 8 Feb 2011

That distance was the fall Newton was looking for—the moon “falls” from a hypothetical straight line to its actual position. Newton calculated the distance the moon falls in 1 second, which corresponds to the dashed line in the diagram. In his quest to compare Earth’s pull on the moon and on an apple, Newton was nearly home. He knew how far the moon falls in one second. He had just calculated that. It falls about 1/20 of an inch. He knew how far an apple falls in one second. Galileo had found that out, with his ramps: 16 feet. All that remained was to look at the ratio of those two falls, the ratio of 1/20 of an inch to 16 feet.

QI: The Second Book of General Ignorance
by Lloyd, John and Mitchinson, John
Published 7 Oct 2010

Nobody knows where the catflap myth started, but we do have a source for the legend of the apple tree: Newton himself. Never one for self-deprecation, he likened his discovery of gravity to Adam being expelled from the Garden of Eden, as both featured the sudden acquisition of knowledge through an apple. Newton often told the story during his lifetime, but, over a century later, the German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) offered his own version of events. ‘Undoubtedly,’ he said, ‘the occurrence was something of this sort: There comes to Newton a stupid importunate man, who asks him how he made his great discovery.

The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
by Alan Cooper
Published 24 Feb 2004

Certainly, some consumer products that depend on the Christmas season for the bulk of their sales have frighteningly important due dates. But most software-based products, even consumer products, aren't that sensitive to any particular date. For example, in 1990 the PenPoint computer from GO was supposed to be the progenitor of a handheldcomputer revolution. In 1992, when the PenPoint crashed and burned, the Apple Newton inherited the promise of the handheld revolution. When the Newton failed to excite people, General Magic's Magic Link computer became the new hope for handhelds. That was in 1994. When the Magic Link failed to sell, the handheld market appeared dead. Venture capitalists declared it a dry hole.

Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
by Garry Kasparov
Published 1 May 2017

In the ten years since I wrote that book, it has become even clearer to me that technology is like language, best learned through early immersion. It was a much-coveted type of hard drive. If I recall correctly, the shouting was being done by Stepan Pachikov, a computer scientist who shared the direction of the computer club with me. His contributions to handwriting recognition software at the Soviet company ParaGraph were used in the Apple Newton. He later moved to Silicon Valley and founded Evernote, the ubiquitous note-taking app. I once made a television commercial for the search engine company AltaVista. If you want to know what happened to AltaVista, you can google it! This fits the axiom of Bill Gates. Bill Gates, The Road Ahead (New York: Viking Penguin, 1995).

Joel on Software
by Joel Spolsky
Published 1 Aug 2004

Ashton-Tate never missed an opportunity to piss off dBase developers, poisoning the fragile ecology that is so vital to a platform vendor's success. I'm a programmer, of course, so I tend to blame the marketing people for these stupid mistakes. Almost all of them revolve around a failure of nontechnical business people to understand basic technology facts. When Pepsi-pusher John Sculley was developing the Apple Newton, he didn't know something that every computer science major in the country knows: Handwriting recognition is not possible. This was at the same time that Bill Gates was hauling programmers into meetings begging them to create a single rich text edit control that could be reused in all their products.

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models
by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
Published 17 Jun 2019

YouTube became a mainstream possibility only once broadband access was prevalent. In both cases there were earlier attempts to accomplish similar things that failed because the timing wasn’t right. The rest of the world wasn’t yet sufficiently equipped with the necessary technology. Apple famously introduced the Apple Newton tablet device in 1993 and discontinued it in 1998 after lackluster sales. More than a decade later, Apple introduced a new tablet device—the iPad—which had the fastest initial adoption rate of any mainstream electronic device up to that point, even ahead of the iPhone and the DVD player. What changed?

The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything
by Matthew Ball
Published 18 Jul 2022

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Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity
by Edward Tenner
Published 8 Jun 2004

When the Macintosh graphic user interface arrived in the 1980s, the mouse at first took over some of the commands of the keyboard, but many users soon clamored for function keys and keyboard shortcuts. In the late 1980s and early 1990s visionaries at Apple and elsewhere called for a new kind of computer that would recognize handwriting on a portable tablet. While the movement ended in a wave of failures, notoriously of the original Apple Newton, pen-based computing never actually died, and both Apple and Microsoft are doing their best to revive it. Yet the smaller the portable device, the more likely it appears that someone will find a way to plug a portable QWERTY keyboard into it. Several are available for the Palm Pilot personal digital assistant (PDA).

Buy Now, Pay Later: The Extraordinary Story of Afterpay
by Jonathan Shapiro and James Eyers
Published 2 Aug 2021

Ten floors below him in the most coveted office building in Manhattan, Philippe Laffont’s Coatue Management ran US$16 billion of assets in his specialist technology hedge fund. While most hedge fund reception halls were decorated with expensive art, Coatue’s paid homage to tech nostalgia. A white cabinet displayed relics that were precursors to the dawning computer age: early Nintendo consoles, the first-ever Apple computer, and the Apple Newton, a clunky handheld device that was discontinued in 1998. Laffont had been an analyst around the same time as Coleman, but Robertson had passed him over for funds, instead backing Coleman, Lee Ainslie’s Maverick and Ole Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global. The Belgian-born Frenchman was a graduate of the temple of nerd-dom that was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in the mid-1990s was hired by Robertson to cover European tech stocks.

The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
Published 27 Jan 2015

Remember also the Y2K threat, which reached its anticlimax weeks before that Super Bowl. We’ll never know whether it amounted to nothing because computer consulting firms successfully convinced everyone to upgrade their mainframes or whether they just brilliantly hyped a nonevent. Well before then history was littered with other failed tech ideas: the Apple Newton, digital audiotapes, and the Betamax video format, to name a few that our generation might remember. Still, ignoring change is risky, for which Eastman Kodak provides a cautionary tale. The century-old, Rochester, New York–based maker of film for analog cameras failed to pick up on the digital-imaging invention of one of its own engineers in the 1970s, only to be overwhelmed in the 2000s by the arrival of mass-marketed digital cameras.

Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart Into a Visionary Leader
by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
Published 24 Mar 2015

Their idea was that users would mimic the actions of a mouse by working directly on the screen of a portable computer with a special stylus. They believed that drawing or writing directly on a screen was so natural and familiar that it would be the best way for people to interact with their computers. This was the nascent technology that John Sculley had counted on to make the Apple Newton MessagePad the next big wave in personal computing when it was introduced in 1993. The Newton failed, of course, partly because its handwriting recognition was embarrassingly inaccurate. Microsoft tried for two decades to make something of pen computing in tablet versions of the PC, but to no avail.

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
by Jimmy Soni
Published 22 Feb 2022

Powers was struck by Levchin: college students weren’t exactly regular attendees at enterprise technology conferences, nor were they this sharp. Levchin remembered Powers as “tall, gangly, wacky… and a good-hearted guy,” someone who “was always a decade ahead of his time.” Powers had come to the conference because of his interest in mobile computing. The first generation of mobile devices—the PalmPilot, the Apple Newton, the Casio Cassiopeia, the Sharp Wizard, and so on—had just burst onto the scene. When he met Levchin, Powers had begun reading up on wireless standards and mobile device security. “You could see the evolution coming,” he remembered. Shortly after the conference, Powers pitched the idea of starting a mobile enterprise consulting practice to his bosses at JD Edwards.

The Art of UNIX Programming
by Eric S. Raymond
Published 22 Sep 2003

It's not quite an exit because the throw can be intercepted by catcher code in an enclosing procedure. Exceptions are normally used to signal errors or unexpected conditions that mean it would be pointless to try to continue normal processing. [160] http://www.eros-os.org/ [161] The operating systems of the Apple Newton, the AS/400 minicomputer and the Palm handheld could be considered exceptions. Problems in the Environment of Unix The old-time Unix culture has largely reinvented itself in the open-source movement. Doing so saved us from extinction, but it also means that the problems of open source are now ours as well.

The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture
by Brian Dear
Published 14 Jun 2017

In time the vision gets stale, and the visionary grows stubborn, as others dream up new visions that challenge then replace the old. It’s how we got Facebook, the answer to MySpace, which was the answer to Friendster. It’s how we got Google, which was the answer to AltaVista, Lycos, and Infoseek. It’s how we got the iPhone after the Palm Treo, Apple Newton, and flip phones. PLATO’s story is no different. But what a story. — The Friendly Orange Glow is divided in three parts. Part One, “The Automatic Teacher,” begins before PLATO with the story of the 1950s work of the psychologist B. F. Skinner. In subsequent chapters we’ll see how a confluence of people, ideas, national emergencies, and government mandates led to the creation of the PLATO system.

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
by Jessica Livingston
Published 14 Aug 2008

They were all technical, they were all enthusiastic about starting something like this—it sounded like a good idea to them, as opposed to something they were Joe Kraus 63 scared of. Actually, every one of us was in the same freshman dorm. This was a company started out of essentially freshman dorm relationships. So we get together at our favorite taqueria. We each had brought ideas to the table and they all sucked. There were things like applications for the Apple Newton—that was my brilliant idea. My other brilliant idea was automatic translation software, which to this day doesn’t work. Everybody had ideas and they were all terrible, and by the end we were all very depressed. And then Graham started talking. It’s hard to remember exactly what he said, but it was something like this: “Look, between CD-ROMs and command line stuff, more and more information’s being made available electronically.”

How the Mind Works
by Steven Pinker
Published 1 Jan 1997

If they did, every creature would be faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. An organism that devotes some of its matter and energy to one organ must take it away from another. It must have thinner bones or less muscle or fewer eggs. Organs evolve only when their benefits outweigh their costs. Do you have a Personal Digital Assistant, like the Apple Newton? These are the hand-held devices that recognize handwriting, store phone numbers, edit text, send faxes, keep schedules, and many other feats. They are marvels of engineering and can organize a busy life. But I don’t have one, though I am a gadget-lover. Whenever I am tempted to buy a PDA, four things dissuade me.