Former Apple CEO describes how the failure of Apple’s MessagePad led to future mobile triumphs [video]

At the recent South Florida Technology Alliance (SFTA) event. former Apple (AAPL) CEO John Sculley discussed the early days of what would become the world’s most valuable company. The Newton MessagePad was one of Apple’s first forays into mobile, an industry the company would change many years later. The return of Steve Jobs to Apple saw the death of the Newton platform, which he considered a failure that he terminated upon his arrival. Sculley also talked about how Apple needed a more power-efficient CPU for its portable devices and it found just that with the ARM architecture. “No microprocessor existed that would allow you to do graphics-based software,” Sculley said while discussing the origins of the ARM project. Larry Tesler,