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The iPhone revolutionized the smartphone industry and put one in nearly everyone’s pocket. But the iPhone didn’t appear from nowhere it owes much of its inspiration to the illfated Apple Newton.

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MUSIC CREDIT

Intro: Laszlo Supernova
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana Sugar High
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Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa   / mbarek_abdel  
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Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4
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CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro
1:04 What IS a Newton?
2:10 Meet the MessagePad 2000
3:44 Surprisingly robust I/O
6:52 Linus learns how to Newton
9:47 Linus gets distracted by games
11:15 Recording a voice memo
11:54 Managing notes and doodling
13:11 It had a real keyboard
15:45 It was never meant for WiFi, but...
18:03 Linus crashes it
18:43 Adding events to the calendar
21:15 There's a NES emulator...
22:29 It was amazing for the time!
23:51 Why did it fail then?
24:21 Newton's legacy lives on in the iPhone