>Apple started making the newton tablet in 1987 I'd say it also helped that Apple had already shipped the Apple II and derivatives before 1987 so that they cou

>Apple started making the newton tablet in 1987 I'd say it also helped that Apple had already shipped the Apple II and derivatives before 1987 so that they could at least burn some percent of revenue on R&D (if you want to also ignore how they were also struggling from the mid 80's to the 90's even after already shipping an actual product to the market). >…it will naturally take longer. Whatever they're working on at this point, maybe it would have been better to stay in academia for a while longer before starting up the hype machine… But oh well, we shall see eventually, one way or another.