Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  Stonewall(ProperNoun) A series of riots in 1969 New York City, beginning with the patrons of the gay bar The Stonewall Inn resisting police arrest, which marked the beginning of the militant gay rights movement. 2  stonewall(Noun) A wall made up of stone.
The history of the iPhone line of phones begins with a direction from Steve Jobs to Apple Inc. 's engineers, whereby he asked them to investigate touchscreens and a tablet computer, which later came to fruition with the iPad. Also, many have noted the device's similarities to Apple's previous touch-screen portable device, the Newton MessagePad. Like the Newton, the iPhone is nearly all screen. Its form factor is credited to Apple's head of design, Jonathan Ive.
I would also give credit to Paul Wellner's 1991 Paper on the Digitall Desk some credit for what we see today in software. So the iPad is a mashup of these technologies with of course a nod to the PDA and of course Newton. I'd argue it was invented by John Sculley and his team in 1993 at Apple. At that time it was called the Newton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New...