Yup. The main problem with the Newton was that it predated the PDA craze by a good 5 or 6 years. Yes, it had some stumbling blocks when it first launched, but by most accounts, the major issues (mostly handwriting) had been ironed out well before it was killed off. To a certain degree, it could be argued that it helped launch the whole PDA thing since quite a few of the developers of Newton software went on to become some of the first developers of Palm software.
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