{"id":15056,"date":"2019-08-03T23:16:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T23:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/apple-introduces-the-newton-3\/"},"modified":"2019-08-03T23:16:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T23:16:35","slug":"apple-introduces-the-newton-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/apple-introduces-the-newton-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Introduces the Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1925\" title=\"Newton MessagePad\" alt=\"Newton MessagePad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/d3b52__404px-Apple_Newton-IMG_0454-cropped-202x300.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/404px-Apple_Newton-IMG_0454-cropped-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/404px-Apple_Newton-IMG_0454-cropped.jpg 404w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/>August 3, 1993<\/p>\n<p>Apple introduces the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MessagePad\" target=\"_blank\">Newton MessagePad<\/a>, one of the world&#8217;s first Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). The term PDA was first used by Apple CEO John Scully in 1992. While a commercial failure, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton_(platform)\" target=\"_blank\">Newton platform<\/a> set the bar for future PDA designs. But perhaps the most important advancement the Newton offered to the technology industry was the development of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ARM_architecture\" target=\"_blank\">ARM processor architecture<\/a>. Apple invested heavily in the fledgling architecture to power the Newton devices. The ARM architecture has been the foundation of most of the world&#8217;s mobile devices since that time, including all versions of the Apple iPhone and iPad. Incidentally, in 1998 Apple sold their ownership interest in ARM, generating $  800 million. This gave Apple some much needed cash to carry them through their darkest days.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/03\/apple-introduces-the-newton\/\">Apple Introduces the Newton<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/31994__12714916.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12714916\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 3, 1993 Apple introduces the Newton MessagePad, one of the world&#8217;s first Personal Digital Assistants (PDA). The term PDA was first used by Apple CEO John Scully in 1992. While a commercial failure, the Newton platform set the bar for future PDA designs. But perhaps the most important advancement the Newton offered to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[62,381,1426],"class_list":["post-15056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-apple-2","tag-introduces","tag-newton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}