The 10th anniversary of the Newton's death

It was ten years ago today, February 27, 1998, that the Apple Newton was officially killed. During the five years that the Newt was in production it garnered nearly as many detractors as admirers, was the butt of jokes and set the ground work for Palm, Handspring and the like.

There's still an active community of Newton users out there, and they've made some incredible accomplishments in those ten years, like:

• iTunes synchronization
• Web server
• Native sync with Mac OS X
• Blogging software
• WiFi support
• Phone

It beat the Windows UMPC in CNet's head-to-head battle, and there's even been a successful port of the Newton OS to other handheld devices. The Newt is gone, but not really. Long live the green PDA!
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