Sculley: Newton Laid the Groundwork for Today's Mobile Industry

in wide-ranging interview bbc, former apple ceo john sculley asked jobs killing off newton, , thought of product in retrospect. sculley admitted newton "clearly ambitious" nailed "many of concepts."

perhaps importantly, sculley points out apple had develop new type of microprocessor power newton, co-founding company called arm holdings. processors based on developed newton power of smartphones , tablets in world.

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well facts had create new microprocessor newton there no low-powered microprocessor handle object orientated programming.

when creating newton co-founded company called arm.

apple owned 47% of it, olivetti owned 47% , founder hermann hauser owned rest.

arm not key technology behind newton became key technology behind every mobile device in world today including iphone , ipad.

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sculley proud of fact though newton failed, technology behind succeeded.

in interview, sculley discusses walter isaacson's biography of jobs, says hasn't read; , jobs' relationship; he's these days, including large investment in social health company audax health; , thinks of possible apple television.

(image courtesy flickr/ivan bandura)

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had sculley let jobs push apple towards mainstream consumer market, instead of business crowd favored, god knows world living in right now.

newton great time (it managed read horrible scribbles) state of company dire apple had renounce project , worst still sell huge shares of arm. (imagine if apple still possessed 47% of arm ipod revolution , subsequent iphone one!)

 

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