#Apple newton messagepad original install

#Apple newton messagepad original install

The iPhone is the app king - it didn't invent applications on mobile phones, but it might as well have, since it made them easy to find and install for the first time.

When it first emerged, the iPhone had none of these things and not even the iPhone 3GS - the daddy of all iPhones - can properly handle more than one application at a time. I could leave it there, but let's really take these kids to school: the Newton, a device older than Jamie Lee Curtis, has both copy and paste, a global search function and the ability to multitask. There's a reason the iPhone has so many apps today - and that's because a device 12 years its senior sat it down and showed it the way forward. It wasn't restricted to built-in software, either - the Newton had access to a wealth of third-party applications and anyone who was anyone in the programming world had a stab at coding for it. It wasn't simply a personal organiser, it was also a full-on Works word processor, an audio recorder, a Rolodex, a clock, a calculator, an Internet browser and more. The Newton, as far as I'm concerned, helped introduce the concept of convergence. Twelve years ago, nobody really understood what applications were - when you bought a device, it usually had one function and one function only.