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General Magic: The Pocket Crystal
By 2022 Apple was shipping more than 200 million iPhones every year. The remarkable success of this technology owed much to the chief hardware Engineer of the original iPhone Tony Fadel. He might not have achieved all he did with the iPhone had Tony not failed on a nearly identical project years earlier. This is the first episode in our four-part series on General Magic the pocket crystal. It's the fall of 1989 18 years before the launch of the iPhone at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California. Mark Porat saw that computers were becoming smaller increasingly personal and more and more a part of daily life. But turning Mark's dream into a reality would require daunting innovations In the late 1980s touch screen
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