5大冤死的熱門科技產品

牛頓

????牛頓是蘋果公司（Apple）的首款個人數碼助理平臺，但它基本上沒找著什么活路，早早就死在了沙灘上。它在整個20世紀90年代所擁有的突破性技術是今天所有平板電腦和智能手機的先驅。但是采用當年的操作系統導致這款設備既笨重又昂貴，還常常會失靈。所用的軟件也常常無法認出用戶用手寫筆在屏幕上輸入的字。有人把“牛頓”稱為最華麗麗的失敗，還把它列為上世紀最重要的技術成果之一。

Newton

????Apple's (AAPL) first platform for personal digital assistants, the Newton, is more popular dead than it ever was alive. Its groundbreaking technology in the early to late 1990s served as a forerunner for all the tablets and smartphones of today. But the devices that used the system were also bulky, costly, and it frequently didn't work. The software often failed to recognize what people entered on the screen using the obligatory stylus. Some call Newton a brilliant failure and rank it among the most important technologies of the past century.