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I want handwriting recognition on the iPhone and iPad — even if it stinks

Should Apple bring its handwriting recognition technology to iOS 10? When I was a kid, I got my Dad's old Newton MessagePad 2100 — Apple's original personal digital assistant — as a "hand-me-down". I put that phrase in quotes because it really wasn't so much a hand-me-down as it was a "hand-it-over": After a year of intermittently playing with his 2100, I claimed it for my own. While I may have... exaggerated some of the Newton's abilities to my awed classmates — I distinctly remember saying to a teacher "I'm going to scan the blackboard and have the Newton take a picture of your notes", ha ha — in 1999, there was nothing I loved more than demonstrating its handwriting recognition. It was almost guaranteed a "We're living in the future!", if not a "Oooo, let me try!" @settern pic.twitter.com/kVY2TkLQ5f— Christoph Wiese (@xtoph) March 8, 2016 Much as I hated longform writing and as terrible as my penmanship was, there was still something pretty magical and otherworldly a...<br clear='all'/>

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