General Magic (documentary film)¶
Kerruish, S., & Maude, M. (2018). General Magic (documentary film).
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- Spun out of Apple in 1990 by Marc Porat, a director in Apple's Advanced Technology Group, together with the Macintosh engineers Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson — and joined in 1992 by the young Tony Fadell and Andy Rubin — it built the Magic Link, a handheld communicator Sony shipped in 1994 with a touchscreen, downloadable apps, e-commerce, and messaging: in concept, a smartphone
This sourceThe documentary's account of General Magic as a 1990 Apple spinout that built touchscreens, an app store and networked communication fifteen years early — 'right about everything except the timing'; the founding roster, the 1992 arrivals, and the Magic Link's manufacturer and feature list come from elsewhere. The documentary's closing argument, which is precisely that General Magic's alumni - Fadell to the iPhone, Rubin to Android - built a decade later what the company had been too early to build.
- Spun out of Apple in 1990 by Marc Porat, a director in Apple's Advanced Technology Group, together with the Macintosh engineers Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson — and joined in 1992 by the young Tony Fadell and Andy Rubin — it built the Magic Link, a handheld communicator Sony shipped in 1994 with a touchscreen, downloadable apps, e-commerce, and messaging: in concept, a smartphone
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