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GENERAL MAGIC - Official Trailer
General Magic and the Soul of Tech
The official trailer for the documentary General Magic, about the secretive Apple spinoff that tried to build a handheld communicator in 1990 and whose ideas shaped the smartphone era.
HN recommends the documentary itself as a story of an epic early failure in mobile computing, and the trailer is the linked entry point.
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