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It’s interesting that some engineers went on to work with Be, and then a bunch of engineers from Be went (back, for some of them) to Apple early in the MacOS X
by kergonath 4y ago
It’s interesting that some engineers went on to work with Be, and then a bunch of engineers from Be went (back, for some of them) to Apple early in the MacOS X era. There are things you can trace back to the Newton across companies like that.
Another thing was text selectors, where you could do things with random text, depending on what it was supposed to represent (open the web browser when taping a link, open the phone app when tapping a phone number, track parcels, show a place in Maps, things like that). Nowadays, it is everywhere, but it was a nice feature on the Newton.
- KerrAvon 4y agoIt was a nice feature in 1997 in Mac OS 8.0 too. http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.14/14.01/Jan98MacTechOnline/index.html http://preserve.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.14/14.01/Ja...
- sgerenser 4y agoIIRC the “data detectors” patent[0] from the Newton era was still valid when the iPhone came out, and was one of the few patents specifically wielded by Apple in court against Android and Samsung. [0] https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,946,647.PN.&OS=PN/5,946,647&RS=PN/5,946,647 https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=...