This came out the year I was born. I found this to be amazing. Given the specs of the device it was able to way more than I was expecting it to. Looking at older devices like this gives me a deeper respect for technology of the past. Thanks for making videos like these.
Always was cool to see what people did with messagepads and PDA's back in the day, much more impressive than what people do with tablets and smartphones today.
I think the reason they don't add cover is the design. We prefer elegance over protection. Also, technologies like gorilla glass almost eradicate the need of screen protectors. Really liked the animations on the device.
The 2000 got all this stuff working. Great handwriting recognition. If other people could understand your writing, the newton probably could too. The interface was also completely focused around the stylus. You could highlight days in the calendar to display them, then simply drag events to a different day. Select and double-tap to duplicate, drag to the side of the screen to store to the clipboard. And with some tinkering, it had 4 clipboards. Outlining was just the most intuitive thing. Route selected objects to other applications, etc. I really miss the Newton OS.
To be fair your handwriting is quite hard to read for a regular human, can't really blame the poor thing, lol! I've seen quite a few of your videos, nice job, I love seeing old techs, somehow they're fascinating.
Nope. I have something similiar, and it reads handwriting quite good. The problem was in the style, you had to write in certain way so the device would recognize it.
@@angeleocorrodead you couldn't be more wrong, the newton actualy had a word interface that you go threw before you are supposed to use the newton. It gives you random words and you write them down so it can recognize how you write letters, was it perfect absolutely not but far better then if you dont
You know how today we're still somewhat amazed when Alexa correctly interprets an instruction like 'Set a reminder to watch the movie at 9', well the MessagePad could do the same, albeit the instruction had to be written. Write 'meet Bob at 10 for dinner', tap the Assist button, and Newton OS would open the calendar, and correctly create an appointment for dinner with Bob at 10. Same for 'fax to Bob' (with the fax No. retrieved from contacts), 'phone Bob' (phone no from contacts - sent via DTMF tones to a handset or via Fax card connected to a phone socket) and so forth. (I'd hate to be Bob TBH). The handwriting wasn't great, but was smart enough, for example, to bias towards place names when writing location details in the contacts app, similarly peoples Names and numbers. It also had a simple but clever cut/copy/paste mechanism which I've never seen replicated since. Palm OS lacked all of this intelligence and seemed retrograde in comparison. Now we have voice assistants and take these features for granted.
"Who wants stylus? You have to get them, and put them away, and you lose them. Yuck! Nobody wants stylus!" - Steve Jobs, 2007. "Introducing, The Pencil" - Tim Cook, 2015
@@namelastname4077 same difference. You have to get them and put it away and you lose them. And it's a thousand more expensive than a "pen shaped plastic stick".
Wow.......i was born in 1993 and i am currently using "Samsung Galaxy Note 2", and i thought that a feature like handwriting recognition must have been a fairly recent invention, ignorant of all this awesome technology that existed and made possible the technology we take for granted today. Thanks +ExplainingComputers for this video.
One problem I used to have was that I wrote very long notes. As everything on Newton was truly obejct-oriented and dynamic in nature, much more so than NeXTStep (aka OSX), objects tended to slow down as they became burdened with more objects! Like the Palm, you had to learn how to use these things. Just picking one up and trying to do a demo well- you didn't really get close to understanding how the device works in real life.
TheBadFred, I’ve used them all and though it may haves worked a bit better it was a specialized writing format that a user had to learn. Where the Newton offered to learn your interpretation of the standard written alphabet. Truly not perfect in NOS 1.x but not too bad if you trained it and you had decent handwriting that was legible lol.
I remember seeing these displayed in a mall store (Sears?) back in the day and I was immediately intrigued, but didn't dare look at them because I couldn't afford it and I didn't want a salesman pouncing on me LOL!
Hi Christopher, great video! I'm working on a story about Jony Ive and his fabulous designs. May I use a few seconds of this video? I'm happy to credit you on-screen and link to your original in my description. Thank you!
This is fine providing that you provide an onscreen credit and link in the description as you note. This channel is Content Management, which might pick up a copyright issue/match with your video when you upload it, but this unlikely.
@@ExplainingComputers Thank you - I'll absolutely provide the credit and link in the description. I'll let you know if for some reason there is a copyright issue to get it sorted before it's released but hopefully won't happen. Thanks again :)
The mod possibilities for this with Raspberry pi, Banana pi, Udoo, Asus Tinker Board etc, and the various available displays. I'm very excited thinking about them.
ExplainingComputers Quick question, are the TFT displays available for the Banana pi compatible with the display connector on the Raspberry pi? Their ribbon connectors look similar. Are they compatible with other SBCs?
Saw the review, one comment: Don't harp on handwriting recognition if you can't write! Seriously, even I could not read what you were scribbling on that screen. As a sidenote, I have used a MessagePad 2100 (admittedly, a beefed-up model) for years as my primary note taking device. The ParaGraph cursive HWR gave me practically 100% correct recognition all of the time, and I took my notes in Dutch!
This looks basically like Apple's overpriced version of the much-more-functional and much more popular Palm PDAs of the day. I've had several Palms over the years, from the IIIe to the IIIxe, and Palm m500 and m505. The IIIxe was my favorite. Slow processor, but still fast enough for what it needed to do. Hard plastic cover like the Newton, virtually indestructible. Tons and tons of third-party software and games that made it much more than a PDA. The best part was that it had "indiglo" backlight if needed, and a manual wheel for adjusting the contrast of the display, you could dial that display in just right for the lighting conditions that were available. Just all around very functional. The Newton added Apple's touches to it, like the stylus that looks like it's impossible to fit, and the animations when things are scribbled out or deleted. Not to mention a few more zeroes on the price tag ;-)
+ExplainingComputers I think you should buy more products as even though they are over priced they are worth it in hardware, software and quality. With out a lot of these innovations from other company's and brands would not exist, such as : Siri. When came out with Siri it wasn't too long still Samsung and others started doing this. In conclusion is amazing ! People who call us isheep are actually Google freaks. Written on my iPad mini 2 - Retina display in white and silver, 16gb, wifi only.
Pen-based interface, they don't do them today as they did them in the 90s, when it was "the future" of computing, everyone will have pen based device, alas this did not work, today pen based devices like iPad Pro and Samsung Note are not using pen based interface, you can use them both without the pen, the pen is just another feature, used mostly in apps. Newton have pages and you can do a lot of things on them, the pages are the interface, the pen is the input and control device, current tablet makers can learn few tricks from Apple Newton, including Apple itself.
Or you had to write one letter or number at a given time sothat the cpu could better recognize it, am mean i can't imagine that a processor can recognize several letters atonce, because it was not called a word recognition but a handwrite recognition hence the term.
+MaowDroid someone can't count it's been over 21 years not 11 haha. Although if you want to be pedantic it has indeed been over 11 years as 21 is greater than 11 but that's not what you meant.
I never had a problem with the handwriting recognition it always got my words correct HOWEVER I wrote my letters BIG which is what the system expected. What I had a probelm with was the speed at which the translation to text happened. It was dog-slow. The MP2000 fixed this.
Thanks for showing a bit of this Newton which was obviously ahead of it's time. Quite disappointed that with your interest in all things computing that this was your one & only Apple product purchase! Even if you were pro-Microsoft, I don't see how you wouldn't have been interested in what Apple was putting out over the years, especially considering how advanced much of their design and functionality was. Most of what they did eventually copied by everyone else. I created my first website in 1996 on a Macintosh II with 8mb of RAM and a 16 GHz processor using Netscape Navigator 2, and hosted on GeoCities! Macs were very hackable back then using ResEdit, and today OSX being UNIX based has much to offer the nerds of the world! I'm a dedicated Mac user but I learned Windows 3.1/95/98/XP/2000/ME/Vista/7/8/10 and Linux versions as well, just so I 1)knew how to help people using those systems and 2)talk intelligently about how HORRIBLE Microsoft's software was/is! Personally I think you missed out on ALOT of interesting technology over the years :-/
Incidentally, I really think iOS sucks and would like something like the Newton, which takes notes first and runs apps secondarily. The mobile version handled phone+voice well. There was also the General Magic device if you didn't like handwriting recognition you could go with that one. I have a clear case MP110 it is very attractive... think tehy should have made more of those- I understandt here were only a few hundred ever produced.
Not soon, though I do now also work in DaVinci Resolve. But I use the whole Adobe Suite (every video I make includes work in After Effects as well as Premiere). But I do know that my use of a now very old editor (I use CS5) cannot go on forever -- the same way that I will at some point have to give up Windows 7. But right now, things are working very well, so I am sticking my head in the sand and letting sleeping dogs lie! :)
Your handwriting on this video was pretty bad! Haha, I really can't blame the tablet on that one! Very nice video, another classic device to put today's tech into perspective.
+Angelo G. I had to hold things at a very difficult angle to avoid reflections on the screen, which made writing very difficult. And I had to do loads of takes to avoid the reflections. So the writing suffered.
I hear the early ones are quite primitive. I have a MP 2000 from 1997, and it's quite decent, I'd almost say very advanced for it's time. The early ones gave it a very bad reputation.
+Ashan Bhatoa Now that is a really good idea for a video! :) A "draw my life" video is also an interesting idea given by background as an animator. I have made a note of these ideas, and will return to them when my channel goes weekly in December. :)
+WASD Gaming UK You are absolutely correct -- a great idea before enough processing power was available to make it work. To this day I do not know why I actually bought one! :)
Just so you know the newtons hand writing recognition was knows to be one of the best even to this day dont listen to him he just has the hand writing of a 2 year old on a sugar rush
Just because you say the iPad was Jobs’s baby does not mean the Newton (especially the last Newton MP2100) was not the predecessor of the iPad. It was the predecessor of the iPhone and iPad. Lol, people back in the day who knew could use albeit difficult a cellular PC Card in a Newton to make a call. The MP2000/2100 were used on a specialized WiFi network in Kuala Lumpur for a museum exhibit before WiFi was a thing. I sold two to the project back in the day. Yes, Jobs came back and fixed the hemorrhaging but that does not say the Newton was not the predecessor. Jobs statement from what I recall was he didn’t like the idea of the Stylus, but just like anything someone thinks they maybe mistaken like his thoughts on the size of iPhone screens...and that includes iPad screens too...
I am challenging you to do a follow up to this video as you unfairly bashed the newton First there is a process for the Newton to learn your handwriting, that is you have to teach it how you form certain letters. Secondly, your handwriting, well, sucks, there is no way a modern handwriting recognition tablet will recognize your writing. Again I challenge you .....
+artifactingreality I seriously don't think that every RUclips channel have to make jokes to keep the videos interesting. I stopped watching Tech of Tomorrow because of all the jokes he makes and I don't get why every channel has to be funny to make good content, this video is factual and keeps itself focused on the subject. I try to use most tech YT channels as sources of information, not as a primary entertainment source. This is not the RUclips channel you are looking for.
This came out the year I was born. I found this to be amazing. Given the specs of the device it was able to way more than I was expecting it to. Looking at older devices like this gives me a deeper respect for technology of the past. Thanks for making videos like these.
Always was cool to see what people did with messagepads and PDA's back in the day, much more impressive than what people do with tablets and smartphones today.
I think the reason they don't add cover is the design. We prefer elegance over protection. Also, technologies like gorilla glass almost eradicate the need of screen protectors.
Really liked the animations on the device.
The 2000 got all this stuff working. Great handwriting recognition. If other people could understand your writing, the newton probably could too. The interface was also completely focused around the stylus. You could highlight days in the calendar to display them, then simply drag events to a different day. Select and double-tap to duplicate, drag to the side of the screen to store to the clipboard. And with some tinkering, it had 4 clipboards. Outlining was just the most intuitive thing. Route selected objects to other applications, etc. I really miss the Newton OS.
I have a 2000(2100) and the handwriting recognition is just as bad as it was on the older ones
@@schizophrenicgaming365 It worked well for me. But like I said "If other people could understand your writing"
To be fair your handwriting is quite hard to read for a regular human, can't really blame the poor thing, lol! I've seen quite a few of your videos, nice job, I love seeing old techs, somehow they're fascinating.
Nope. I have something similiar, and it reads handwriting quite good. The problem was in the style, you had to write in certain way so the device would recognize it.
@@angeleocorrodead you couldn't be more wrong, the newton actualy had a word interface that you go threw before you are supposed to use the newton. It gives you random words and you write them down so it can recognize how you write letters, was it perfect absolutely not but far better then if you dont
@@ThomasSmith-rh6on That sounds so great! Clever idea!
Thank you Chris, I had forgot about this message pad. I enjoy these trips into the past.Keep up the good work you always do!Rich
You know how today we're still somewhat amazed when Alexa correctly interprets an instruction like 'Set a reminder to watch the movie at 9', well the MessagePad could do the same, albeit the instruction had to be written. Write 'meet Bob at 10 for dinner', tap the Assist button, and Newton OS would open the calendar, and correctly create an appointment for dinner with Bob at 10. Same for 'fax to Bob' (with the fax No. retrieved from contacts), 'phone Bob' (phone no from contacts - sent via DTMF tones to a handset or via Fax card connected to a phone socket) and so forth. (I'd hate to be Bob TBH). The handwriting wasn't great, but was smart enough, for example, to bias towards place names when writing location details in the contacts app, similarly peoples Names and numbers. It also had a simple but clever cut/copy/paste mechanism which I've never seen replicated since. Palm OS lacked all of this intelligence and seemed retrograde in comparison. Now we have voice assistants and take these features for granted.
"Who wants stylus? You have to get them, and put them away, and you lose them. Yuck! Nobody wants stylus!" - Steve Jobs, 2007.
"Introducing, The Pencil" - Tim Cook, 2015
+Harji Kalbuadi Brilliant. :)
it's a digital pen. a stylus is just a piece of plastic shaped as a pen.
People that are in The Apple Cult will buy anything they are told to buy
@@namelastname4077 same difference. You have to get them and put it away and you lose them. And it's a thousand more expensive than a "pen shaped plastic stick".
Trust me, what you wrote looked more like "Hills" than "Hello". GENIUS product.
I can't read his second handwriting either.
Brings back memories. I cant see many relying on this with the funky auto correct. Good video Chris!
Thanks
Rich
With the Apple iPad Pro's announcement today, this video's timing is perfect :)
+gietie96 And also pure luck! :)
+gietie96 I was going to say - the timing is excellent!
you're videos are amazing. the editing is good, and I love the pc builds. Good job!
Wow.......i was born in 1993 and i am currently using "Samsung Galaxy Note 2", and i thought that a feature like handwriting recognition must have been a fairly recent invention, ignorant of all this awesome technology that existed and made possible the technology we take for granted today. Thanks +ExplainingComputers for this video.
I was born when this device came out. Really interesting what IT knew in the 90s. Thanks for these videos! :)
One problem I used to have was that I wrote very long notes. As everything on Newton was truly obejct-oriented and dynamic in nature, much more so than NeXTStep (aka OSX), objects tended to slow down as they became burdened with more objects!
Like the Palm, you had to learn how to use these things. Just picking one up and trying to do a demo well- you didn't really get close to understanding how the device works in real life.
Congratulations on you move. Much success on your endeavor.
Hello again! Love the retro explanations
Two years later(1996) Palm OS with Graffiti worked much better and was even smaller.
TheBadFred, I’ve used them all and though it may haves worked a bit better it was a specialized writing format that a user had to learn. Where the Newton offered to learn your interpretation of the standard written alphabet. Truly not perfect in NOS 1.x but not too bad if you trained it and you had decent handwriting that was legible lol.
I remember seeing these displayed in a mall store (Sears?) back in the day and I was immediately intrigued, but didn't dare look at them because I couldn't afford it and I didn't want a salesman pouncing on me LOL!
I just picked up this model today. Great video!
Still beat the heck out of my Casio digital assistant from around that same time period.
These machines are made with good intentions towards durability and performance unlike now companies goes for planned obseleance
So true. Few things are built to last anymore.
Hi Christopher, great video! I'm working on a story about Jony Ive and his fabulous designs. May I use a few seconds of this video? I'm happy to credit you on-screen and link to your original in my description. Thank you!
This is fine providing that you provide an onscreen credit and link in the description as you note. This channel is Content Management, which might pick up a copyright issue/match with your video when you upload it, but this unlikely.
@@ExplainingComputers Thank you - I'll absolutely provide the credit and link in the description. I'll let you know if for some reason there is a copyright issue to get it sorted before it's released but hopefully won't happen. Thanks again :)
The mod possibilities for this with Raspberry pi, Banana pi, Udoo, Asus Tinker Board etc, and the various available displays. I'm very excited thinking about them.
Cool thoughts . . .
ExplainingComputers Quick question, are the TFT displays available for the Banana pi compatible with the display connector on the Raspberry pi? Their ribbon connectors look similar. Are they compatible with other SBCs?
Sadly not -- the Pi uses a special display.
ExplainingComputers Dash it all. Oh well, thanks for the reply. Very helpful.
Saw the review, one comment: Don't harp on handwriting recognition if you can't write!
Seriously, even I could not read what you were scribbling on that screen.
As a sidenote, I have used a MessagePad 2100 (admittedly, a beefed-up model) for years as my primary note taking device. The ParaGraph cursive HWR gave me practically 100% correct recognition all of the time, and I took my notes in Dutch!
“Eat up Martha.”
😂😂
Real nice video presentation.
Jony Ive's a legend
Apple first iPhone:who wants a stylus.steve jobs you forgot that you put a stylus on apple message pad
Nice video, but what would those PCMCIA things be used for? 3:07
There were modem devices that slotted in there for network connectivity, as well as storage devices.
This looks basically like Apple's overpriced version of the much-more-functional and much more popular Palm PDAs of the day. I've had several Palms over the years, from the IIIe to the IIIxe, and Palm m500 and m505. The IIIxe was my favorite. Slow processor, but still fast enough for what it needed to do. Hard plastic cover like the Newton, virtually indestructible. Tons and tons of third-party software and games that made it much more than a PDA.
The best part was that it had "indiglo" backlight if needed, and a manual wheel for adjusting the contrast of the display, you could dial that display in just right for the lighting conditions that were available. Just all around very functional. The Newton added Apple's touches to it, like the stylus that looks like it's impossible to fit, and the animations when things are scribbled out or deleted. Not to mention a few more zeroes on the price tag ;-)
+jaykay18 Indeed. The Palm PDAs were very nice, small, functional devices.
+ExplainingComputers I think you should buy more products as even though they are over priced they are worth it in hardware, software and quality. With out a lot of these innovations from other company's and brands would not exist, such as : Siri. When came out with Siri it wasn't too long still Samsung and others started doing this.
In conclusion is amazing ! People who call us isheep are actually Google freaks.
Written on my iPad mini 2 - Retina display in white and silver, 16gb, wifi only.
+ExplainingComputers You still do great videos !
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ExplainingComputers why is it the last apple product do you purchase ? Do you hate apple products ?
Psion series 3 is pretty good too.
Pen-based interface, they don't do them today as they did them in the 90s, when it was "the future" of computing, everyone will have pen based device, alas this did not work, today pen based devices like iPad Pro and Samsung Note are not using pen based interface, you can use them both without the pen, the pen is just another feature, used mostly in apps.
Newton have pages and you can do a lot of things on them, the pages are the interface, the pen is the input and control device, current tablet makers can learn few tricks from Apple Newton, including Apple itself.
An apple fell on Newtons head and gave him an idea!
Or you had to write one letter or number at a given time sothat the cpu could better recognize it, am mean i can't imagine that a processor can recognize several letters atonce, because it was not called a word recognition but a handwrite recognition hence the term.
Can you do something with the PSION Organiser II?
If I had one, I would!
@@ExplainingComputers oh i see...
I love your channel
2:48 the Apple Newton farted
Omg this is almost as fast as e ink devices we have today lol
Newton MessagePad: Apple tablet with stylus
iPad Pro: Apple tablet with stylus
I actually like Apple, I'm just saying it's a bit repetitive.
+MaowDroid someone can't count it's been over 21 years not 11 haha. Although if you want to be pedantic it has indeed been over 11 years as 21 is greater than 11 but that's not what you meant.
Hello Explaning Computers
I never had a problem with the handwriting recognition it always got my words correct HOWEVER I wrote my letters BIG which is what the system expected. What I had a probelm with was the speed at which the translation to text happened. It was dog-slow. The MP2000 fixed this.
+ExplainingComputers Why is this your last Apple product?
Because I never bought anything else from Apple ever again! :)
ExplainingComputers Can't say I blame you!
Thanks for showing a bit of this Newton which was obviously ahead of it's time. Quite disappointed that with your interest in all things computing that this was your one & only Apple product purchase! Even if you were pro-Microsoft, I don't see how you wouldn't have been interested in what Apple was putting out over the years, especially considering how advanced much of their design and functionality was. Most of what they did eventually copied by everyone else. I created my first website in 1996 on a Macintosh II with 8mb of RAM and a 16 GHz processor using Netscape Navigator 2, and hosted on GeoCities! Macs were very hackable back then using ResEdit, and today OSX being UNIX based has much to offer the nerds of the world! I'm a dedicated Mac user but I learned Windows 3.1/95/98/XP/2000/ME/Vista/7/8/10 and Linux versions as well, just so I 1)knew how to help people using those systems and 2)talk intelligently about how HORRIBLE Microsoft's software was/is! Personally I think you missed out on ALOT of interesting technology over the years :-/
What about the competitor to the MessagePad, the Amstrad PenPad?
+Sad But Mad Lad I had forgotten that . . .
Man this is a great show even for a super power user like me, but you HAVE to get a new intro.
+Connor O'Brien (Connor Benson O'Brien) December! :) When the channel goes weekly . . .
Incidentally, I really think iOS sucks and would like something like the Newton, which takes notes first and runs apps secondarily. The mobile version handled phone+voice well. There was also the General Magic device if you didn't like handwriting recognition you could go with that one.
I have a clear case MP110 it is very attractive... think tehy should have made more of those- I understandt here were only a few hundred ever produced.
Bad review considering you are supposed to go threw the word interface so newton could recognize your handwriting and how you make letters
do you plan to stop using premiere pro anytime soon?
Not soon, though I do now also work in DaVinci Resolve. But I use the whole Adobe Suite (every video I make includes work in After Effects as well as Premiere). But I do know that my use of a now very old editor (I use CS5) cannot go on forever -- the same way that I will at some point have to give up Windows 7. But right now, things are working very well, so I am sticking my head in the sand and letting sleeping dogs lie! :)
Well, I wouldn't blame it all on the Newton typing recognition...
:)
@@ExplainingComputers ;-)
He wants an assistant to feed him an apple! 🍎
I know this will sound strange But you should do a Draw my life video.
Yes is it a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2
Your handwriting on this video was pretty bad! Haha, I really can't blame the tablet on that one! Very nice video, another classic device to put today's tech into perspective.
+Angelo G. I had to hold things at a very difficult angle to avoid reflections on the screen, which made writing very difficult. And I had to do loads of takes to avoid the reflections. So the writing suffered.
I understand. I'm looking forward to the next classic device video!
I hear the early ones are quite primitive. I have a MP 2000 from 1997, and it's quite decent, I'd almost say very advanced for it's time. The early ones gave it a very bad reputation.
Venn Diagrams? I saw a MasterCard logo
It Basically when you Draw your life on a computer using the Application Paint or on a whiteboard
Narita desires. So true.
You should explain how you got into Computers
+Ashan Bhatoa Now that is a really good idea for a video! :) A "draw my life" video is also an interesting idea given by background as an animator. I have made a note of these ideas, and will return to them when my channel goes weekly in December. :)
+ExplainingComputers Thanks
+ExplainingComputers if you are not sure about how to do it or how it will turn out just type in " Draw my Life" into the RUclips search bar
+ExplainingComputers Can you Subscribe to me please
*"The apple message panda 100."*
Are you drunk explainingcomputers?
Classic computers look sexy
Where the new vids at?
If I remember rightly these were never paticuarly successfull. took a good few decades for the touchscreen to really take off.
+WASD Gaming UK You are absolutely correct -- a great idea before enough processing power was available to make it work. To this day I do not know why I actually bought one! :)
Bob Anderson is my friend's dads name lol.
make a video about the beaglebone black
+casaverdero Added to my list. :)
+ExplainingComputers omg ty means so much to me :))
Just so you know the newtons hand writing recognition was knows to be one of the best even to this day dont listen to him he just has the hand writing of a 2 year old on a sugar rush
"The first Apple product.....and the last." Right on, man!
:)
Narita Desires
first piece of Apple hardware, and the last. that made me laugh with joy, keeping it loyal to the productive oses and hardware, Linux and windows.
The pen looks like a blunt dart
Why the first and last one?
I have the messagePad 2100 and 120
predecessor to the i pad?
Absolutely not! The iPad was Steve Job's baby; and Jobs hated the Newton so much, he killed it off just when it started to make Apple some money.
Just because you say the iPad was Jobs’s baby does not mean the Newton (especially the last Newton MP2100) was not the predecessor of the iPad. It was the predecessor of the iPhone and iPad. Lol, people back in the day who knew could use albeit difficult a cellular PC Card in a Newton to make a call. The MP2000/2100 were used on a specialized WiFi network in Kuala Lumpur for a museum exhibit before WiFi was a thing. I sold two to the project back in the day. Yes, Jobs came back and fixed the hemorrhaging but that does not say the Newton was not the predecessor. Jobs statement from what I recall was he didn’t like the idea of the Stylus, but just like anything someone thinks they maybe mistaken like his thoughts on the size of iPhone screens...and that includes iPad screens too...
Great concept for that time but unusable. „Make video“ -> „Narita desires“ WELL :D
Thanx..
nice
👍
Can it play hello kitty 2
No 1993
first comment
Lol even humans can't read your handwriting.
:)
you are scary
I am challenging you to do a follow up to this video as you unfairly bashed the newton
First there is a process for the Newton to learn your handwriting, that is you have to teach it how you form certain letters.
Secondly, your handwriting, well, sucks, there is no way a modern handwriting recognition tablet will recognize your writing.
Again I challenge you .....
+Haniff Sutherland Yes, teaching improved the Newton's handwriting recognition, but it was never very good -- and not just with my writing! :)
lol first and last
your videos need more fun and excitement. crack some jokes man.
I might be a software engineer but I don't live in a cemetery...
He did crack a joke he just has a dry sense of humour. Notice the Apple product joke at the end of the video.
+artifactingreality I seriously don't think that every RUclips channel have to make jokes to keep the videos interesting. I stopped watching Tech of Tomorrow because of all the jokes he makes and I don't get why every channel has to be funny to make good content, this video is factual and keeps itself focused on the subject. I try to use most tech YT channels as sources of information, not as a primary entertainment source. This is not the RUclips channel you are looking for.