General Magic Phone Predates Steve Jobs iPhone

[carlettosan]

What is Mark Porat's up to now?

I created a page for the Magic Link PICs on Facebook, feel free to join and add some interesting content.

Look for: Sony Magic Link Personal Intelligent Communicator

It's the only page on Facebook on the Magic Link series... ;-)

[carlettosan]

Loved my Magic Link... Def ahead of its time! Too bad for the Sony marketing... could have been a very successfull product !!! I remember connecting via built-in modem from Bali to Italy in 1994 summer via SLIP connection and retrieving my email from my Italian internet provider of the time (mclink.it). Amazing!

[allinaday]

@carlettosan Thank you for your comment. It is General Magic and my work with the company that brought me to Northern California in 1992 to help them launch. Almost 20 years later, CEO Marc Porat's vision for the company and what he called, "Whole Person Thinking" is visionary and the vision has not yet been fully achieved.

DavidHoffman–filmmaker

[orangeguru]

... and today Apple is reselling all these old ideas as their cool new "Inventions".

Bah!