I noticed something on the Newton MessagePad: It has no front buttons at all - only an LCD screen, à la iPhone! So we can say that, if there were no MessagePad, then today's iPhone would've been very really different. But there's something the iPhone didn't inherit from the MessagePad 2000: flash-memory expandability. The MessagePad 2000 seems to use CompactFlash - the iPhone could've thrown in an SD slot, but didn't.
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I noticed something on the Newton MessagePad: It has no front buttons at all - only an LCD screen, à la iPhone! So we can say that, if there were no MessagePad, then today's iPhone would've been very really different. But there's something the iPhone didn't inherit from the MessagePad 2000: flash-memory expandability. The MessagePad 2000 seems to use CompactFlash - the iPhone could've thrown in an SD slot, but didn't.