LGR Tech Tales - General Magic: Creating the Cloud

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LGR's ten-minute retrospective on General Magic, the 1990s company that tried to build a pocket communicator and its Magic Cap software long before the smartphone. It tells the story of the company and its product.

HN people recommend it as a short and fascinating summary of General Magic, the startup that imagined the smartphone, and point to it next to the documentary.

“Clint of "LazyGameReviews" did a fascinating retrospective on General Magic a while back”

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@Nr72019 · in “Explore Magic Cap, a Smartphone OS from a Decade Before the iPhone”
LGR has a great video about General Magic, the company behind Magic Cap. ▶ this video
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@IntelMiner2018 · in “A time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone”
Throwing it out there for those who aren't aware of it Clint of "LazyGameReviews" did a fascinating retrospective on General Magic a while back ▶ this video
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@minikites2018 · in “A time in 1994 when Steve Jobs got to use a device like an iPhone”
The YouTube channel LGR has a great video on General Magic: ▶ this video
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@teddyh2018 · in “General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagined the smartphone”
A very nice 10-minute video covering the story of General Magic, the company: ▶ this video
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@bane2016 · in “General Magic's Disappearing Act”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@teddyh2019 · in “A new documentary on the downfall of General Magic”
A 10-minute summary of the history of General Magic: ▶ this video