More saliently than that, Palm started out as a vendor of Newton apps, before it started making its own Newton-killer hardware. Palm's Graffiti started out as

More saliently than that, Palm started out as a vendor of Newton apps, before it started making its own Newton-killer hardware. Palm's Graffiti started out as an alternate text input system for the Newton. It was an Apple software vendor long before it was an Apple rival, and its design is influenced by the Newton more proximally than the Mac.