{"id":7660,"date":"2013-08-14T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2020-10-05T16:06:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T20:06:39","slug":"remembering-the-apple-newtons-prophetic-failure-and-lasting-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/14\/remembering-the-apple-newtons-prophetic-failure-and-lasting-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Apple Newton&rsquo;s Prophetic Failure and Lasting Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2013\/08\/remembering-the-apple-newtons-prophetic-failure-and-lasting-ideals\/?viewall=true\">Mat Honan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/design\/2013\/08\/remembering-the-apple-newtons-prophetic-failure-and-lasting-ideals\/?viewall=true\"><p>The result of all that work was a completely new category of device running an entirely new architecture housed in a form factor that represented a completely new and bold design language. There was just one problem: handwriting. &ldquo;We were just way ahead of the technology,&rdquo; laments Capps. &ldquo;We barely got it functioning by &rsquo;93 when we started shipping it.&rdquo; Handwriting recognition was supposed to be Newton&rsquo;s killer feature, and yet it was the feature that probably ultimately killed the product.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mat Honan: The result of all that work was a completely new category of device running an entirely new architecture housed in a form factor that represented a completely new and bold design language. There was just one problem: handwriting. &ldquo;We were just way ahead of the technology,&rdquo; laments Capps. &ldquo;We barely got it functioning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-10-05T20:06:42Z","apple_news_api_id":"cd67b5ec-90d5-4092-8729-47f1fb397a32","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-10-05T20:06:43Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AzWe17JDVQJKHKUfx-zl6Mg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,1996,295,527],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-handwriting","tag-history","tag-newton"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30364,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/30364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}