About 20 years before the iPhone was introduced, a small group at Apple had a vision for a personal communicator. This was before the Internet existed and during a time when the only cell phones were huge bricks with massive batteries in a bag. This group spun out of Apple before Steve Jobs returned into a company called General Magic. This is a fascinating account of that history and the work that ultimately resulted in the creation of social media and the most popular personal communicator on the planet…the iPhone.
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An oral history of General Magic, an influential tech company founded by ex-Apple engineers, which invented important forerunners to the iPhone and other smartphones like the Sony Magic Link. Read on:
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