Re: Newton - MessagePad
I'm not sure they would be that much different. At the time silicon was simply too puny to do much and data connections were too feeble. The smartphones included a lot of different technologies that had been developed separately over the previous decade. Apple understood how to package these into a new and exciting, nay, magical product, but it couldn't have been done if the phone industry hadn't bankrolled much of the development.
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