History of Apple Portable Devices

1983 Steve Jobs hires John Sculley as Apple CEO (History here.)
1985 Jobs ousted from Apple.
1993 Sculley coins term:

Personal
Digital
Assistant

(PDA) while intoducing the Apple Newton, his pet project.

1997 Jobs cancels Newton.

2001 Jobs/Apple introduce the revolutionary iPod into the mp3 marketplace.

2003-2006 Apple Macintosh tablet pc rumors abound. Word is, Jobs has quashed the project.

2007 Jobs intoduces the new iPhone a:

Audio player -
Digital device for the Internet that is also a
Phone