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‘General Magic’ Review: Failure is Only the Beginning
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‘General Magic’ Review: Failure is Only the Beginning

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Christopher Campbell
May 08, 2019
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General Magic tells the story of how your smartphone first switched on. Co-directed by Matthew Maude and Sarah Kerruish, the documentary follows its titular Silicon Valley startup in their development of the Sony Magic Link — an early progenitor of the iPhone — in an era before Wi-Fi, cell towers, and the World Wide Web.

General Magic attracted some of t…

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