10 Black Sheep of tech

With all the buzz surrounding the recent iPhone launch, who would have remembered a time when Apple wasn't always that handhelds savvy. Enter the Newton MessagePad back in the 1990s. While most people regarded it as revolutionary for its time, the Newton didn't fall far from the Apple tree and failed to spark a revolution. Could it have been the expensive price tag (which peaked at US$1,000)? Or could it have been the shaky handwriting recognition software? Talk about arrested development.

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