The handwriting recognition was the Newton&#x27;s oversold aspect, leading to (in my opinion) many to overlook some unique system-wide architecture decisions for data representation; the data soup [1].<p>That technical description doesn&#x27;t easily convey the benefits for those who have never seen data soups before, but this blog post [2] gives some idea.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Soup_%28Apple%29" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Soup_%28Apple%29</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;faaborg&#x2F;2007&#x2F;06&#x2F;29&#x2F;why-the-iphone-is-no-newton&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.mozilla.org&#x2F;faaborg&#x2F;2007&#x2F;06&#x2F;29&#x2F;why-the-iphone-i...</a>