Apple Fact of the day!

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Did you know that Apple was one of the first companies to launch a consumer digital camera? And that their 1993 device the Newton originated the term “personal digital assistant” as well as being  the first to feature handwriting recognition?

 

The Quicktake came out in 1994 was one of the first consumer digital camera lines but was a smidge before it’s time – being discontinued in 1997. The QuickTake cameras had a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels maximum and was ranked by Time Magazine as one of it’s “100 greatest and most influential gadgets from 1923 to the present”

 

The Newton was also before it’s time – with production only running from 1993 until February 27, 1998, with price and handwriting recognition problems blamed for lack of sales.

 

 

The more you know, right?