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    Review: 'General Magic' profiles the people who created a smartphone, and then lost everything

    by Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times May 14, 2019 3 minutes

    "General Magic" is such an involving documentary for so many reasons it's hard to know where to begin. The title itself, as it turns out, might be best.

    General Magic is the name of a group that, as former Apple chief executive John Sculley puts it, could be "the most important company to come out of Silicon Valley no one has ever heard of."

    That's because General Magic is not legendary for the usual reasons.

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