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And today we are launching Newton, a revolution for the pocket
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And today we are launchingNewton, a revolutionfor the pocket

And today we are launching
Newton, a revolution
for the pocket

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And today we are launching Newton, a revolution for the pocket.
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Timestamp in Movie
00:35:05
Uploaded
Jun 18, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Spellbound Productions II

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The ideas that dominate the tech industry and our day to day lives were born at a secretive Silicon Valley start-up named 'General Magic', which spun out of Apple in 1990 to create the first handheld personal communicator (or "smartp
John Sculley gave a keynote address at the 1993 - General Magic 00:10
John Sculley gave a keynote address at the 1993
Imagine being able to take a cellular telephone and be able to be paged - General Magic 00:10
Imagine being able to take a cellular telephone and be able ...
Except he announced it as something Apple was doing. We thought Apple wasn't doing it - General Magic 00:09
Except he announced it as something Apple was doing. We thou...
I wish I could say that I was hurt. I wasn't-- - General Magic 00:08
I wish I could say that I was hurt. I wasn't--
They had, uh, decided to make something - General Magic 00:07
They had, uh, decided to make something
I thought Newton was, I thought that they could co-exist, you know. - General Magic 00:06
I thought Newton was, I thought that they could co-exist, yo...
And, so I wasn't really concerned that Newton would hurt General Magic. - General Magic 00:06
And, so I wasn't really concerned that Newton would hur...
They were our closest partner who really gave us our life. - General Magic 00:06
They were our closest partner who really gave us our life.
And so when we found out that they were trying to kill us, we felt completely betrayed. - General Magic 00:08
And so when we found out that they were trying to kill us, w...
You wanna know about the Newton? I'll tell you about the Newton, #### the Newton. - General Magic 00:06
You wanna know about the Newton? I'll tell you about th...
The Newton announcement caused vision envy - General Magic 00:07
The Newton announcement caused vision envy
They thought that Sculley's was bigger than theirs. - General Magic 00:05
They thought that Sculley's was bigger than theirs.
"I want that vision thing. Do that vision thing for me too." - General Magic 00:09
"I want that vision thing. Do that vision thing for me ...
We've got to explain the vision such that everybody gets it. - General Magic 00:05
We've got to explain the vision such that everybody get...
The press gets it, the corporations get it, it's all clear. - General Magic 00:05
The press gets it, the corporations get it, it's all cl...
Leading the way to a new age of personal communication, - General Magic 00:09
Leading the way to a new age of personal communication,
We call this environment, the Cloud. - General Magic 00:04
We call this environment, the Cloud.
The fact that the Newton was going to ship and it was getting - General Magic 00:11
The fact that the Newton was going to ship and it was gettin...
Stakes are higher, you better be better than these guys. - General Magic 00:05
Stakes are higher, you better be better than these guys.
Big event? This was huge and we made it huge - General Magic 00:07
Big event? This was huge and we made it huge