Tag: Steve Jobs

The Newton MessagePad was a strange, brilliant, and messy ancestor of today's tablets. This piece traces how its handwriting recognition, apps, and design experiments prefigured features we now take for granted - and why it was canceled before the world was ready.

How the NeXT Computer - a bold, developer-first machine conceived by Steve Jobs - introduced software ideas and tools (NeXTSTEP, Objective‑C, Interface Builder, Display PostScript) that directly seeded the World Wide Web, macOS, iOS and modern software development.