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:
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!
Everyone loves a good list. The folks at Macworld have identified 
Every one loves a good list post, and this one is certainly entertaining. Newlaunches.com has compiled their list of 
The AP has penned an 
Hadley over at Apple Matters pinged me last week to let me know they were doing this, but today it is official: 
