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General Magic – Official Documentary Trailer

General Magic and the Soul of Tech · Documentary · YouTube title: GENERAL MAGIC - Official Trailer
Why it's here

HN recommends the documentary itself as a story of an epic early failure in mobile computing, and the trailer is the linked entry point.

What it covers

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.