I was a Handspring owner, so I have a lot of respect for how the Newton team really paved the way for iOS and Android. Newton was the first to think about what we would actually use a pocket-sized computer for, (something the founder of Palm refined by carrying around a wooden block and thinking about what he would pull it out of his pocket for).
The Newton brand may be dead, but it did pave the way. Without the Newton, we wouldn’t have had Palm and PDA’s, or the original iPhone. We would all be using Windows Mobile, or whatever that hot mess was that Nokia made for its first smart phones, and still using microscopic keyboards on our Blackberry PDAs.
