Apple has been quiet about trying to create pocket gadgets before the iPhone. Because they were failures

August 3 marked the 27th anniversary of the release of Apple's first pocket computer, the Newton MessagePad. Within the framework of the exhibition

At the 1993 Macworld Expo in Boston, the company, then led by Gil Amelio, showed off a revolutionary gadget—a touchscreen electronic organizer with handwriting input.

The first version of the device ran on a processorwith a modest frequency of 20 MHz, had 4 megabytes of RAM and only 640 kilobytes of permanent storage, and was powered by four "little finger" batteries. In total, until 1997, they managed to release 14 models (including several made for third-party companies), the last of which was almost ten times more powerful.