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.
Apple's Newtown and the Palm OS. Developed by Apple (AAPL), the Newton was a bulky PDA released in 1993 that could be considered the grandfather to the modern day iPhone/iPad. However, unlike the Organiser, it featured the ability to connect directly to Macs, PCs, and Unix machines, as well as Wi-Fi networks.