A postmodern journey of faith...

8/09/2005

Top 10 Tech We Miss: The Newton

When Apple gets things right, it's spectacular (think iPod), but when the company messes up, it's a hoot. The first popular pen-based PDA, the Apple Newton, was big, expensive, and too smart for its britches. Early models tried to interpret handwriting with often amusing results, making words out of users' scrawls that often combined into surreal "Newton Poetry." We miss the Newton because what it thought we meant was often far more interesting than what we were really trying to say.
HILARIOUS! I think I should get one of those...they're still around on eBay.

Read the whole article for the other 9:
http://www.cnet.com/4520-11136_1-6259955-1.html?tag=txt

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