{"id":854,"date":"2008-01-24T04:51:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/on-apple-newton\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T04:57:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T12:57:40","slug":"on-apple-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/on-apple-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"On Apple Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have one of those <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_Newton\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Newtons<\/a> back in grad school. I bought one as soon as I got my first job right out of my undergrad, you know, as a pat on the back kinda thing. But boy, how time has changed&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/optilevers\/sets\/72157600750698767\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1295\/773748277_c3a5551c98.jpg?v=0\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think Newton still has one of the best handwriting recognition softwares out there a decade after it was discontinued by Apple. After I sold mine, all kinds of Palm and Windows CE people have tried to get me to buy one of those toys. But the results were always the same &#8212; once you&#8217;ve used a Newton, everything else just sucks in comparison. Now, granted things have come a long way since, but I&#8217;ve also learned to stop relying on those PDAs&#8230; that is until iPhone came along.<\/p>\n<p>Damn you, Apple. Why must you toy with my feelings.<\/p>\n<p>So I have my sight set on the iPhone (though I don&#8217;t really need it per se; but I am sure Grace could benefit from having one)&#8230; as soon as I can afford to feed another mouth come this June&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have one of those Apple Newtons back in grad school. I bought one as soon as I got my first job right out of my undergrad, you know, as a pat on the back kinda thing. But boy, how time has changed&#8230; I think Newton still has one of the best handwriting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/on-apple-newton\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Apple Newton&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-dM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}