8 Times Apple Messed Up Really Badly

OK, and now a real throwback. In 1993, Apple unveiled the MessagePad, a personal digital assistant developed for the Apple Newton platform. This iPad-before-the-iPad was noteworthy for its handwriting recognition software, except that it wasn't the greatest handwriting recognizer. You had one job, MessagePad!

The Simpsons mocked the tech in the episode "Lisa on Ice," in which a threatening memo is translated to something rather helpful.