The Apple PDA – cheese looking for a mouse

Kelly McNeill writes: “Many industry observers believe the Newton, the groundbreaking handheld organizer from Apple Computer and one of the company’s buried treasures, was an intriguing and revolutionary failure. At the same time, we still want a new Apple personal digital assistant (PDA) to take its place. Rumors of an iPhone, an iPad, or an Apple-branded Palm OS machine predictably surface whenever a large Apple event looms on the horizon.”