5大冤死的热门科技产品

牛顿

    牛顿是苹果公司（Apple）的首款个人数码助理平台，但它基本上没找着什么活路，早早就死在了沙滩上。它在整个20世纪90年代所拥有的突破性技术是今天所有平板电脑和智能手机的先驱。但是采用当年的操作系统导致这款设备既笨重又昂贵，还常常会失灵。所用的软件也常常无法认出用户用手写笔在屏幕上输入的字。有人把“牛顿”称为最华丽丽的失败，还把它列为上世纪最重要的技术成果之一。

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.