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Marking the 40th anniversary of the Mac, the Steve Jobs Archive has revisited the day "Rolling Stone" magazine sent a photographer to this "weird company."
Marking the 40th anniversary of the Mac, the Steve Jobs Archive has revisited the day "Rolling Stone" magazine sent a photographer to this "weird company."
General Magic was the company that created the Magic Cap operating system and hand-held devices including the Sony Magic Link and Motorola Envoy. Many concepts from Magic Cap went on to new lives in later products like the Danger Hiptop, Apple iPhone, and Google Android. Before General Magic became a company in 1990, it was an internal project at Apple called “Paradigm.” One day while I was working at General Magic, the marketing department was throwing away old stuff, so as the self-appointed, unofficial General Magic historian, I dug through their trash and discovered this: a con...