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I'm amused that anyone ever took Magic Leap seriously. It's basically Apple's Newton; a good idea without the tech, without the infrastructure, without the cont

• ineedasername 7y ago
  Well, the Newton at least went to market with a consumer-facing product. That's one up on Magic Leap.
• mceachen 7y ago
  Newton's second release of hardware and software was actually pretty solid. It needed some user training (there were many features that simply weren't discoverable, but were slick one you knew), and it was expensive. It certainly wasn't a toy with a couple half-baked demos and no actual apps. There was a healthy third party hardware and software developer ecosystem. A lot of people (including me!) wanted to see it work, and it was frustrating to have Jobs kill it right when it was getting traction.
  • Bud 7y ago
    I wanted to see it work too; I bought one! But in retrospect I think it's clear that it was a product that was about 10 years before its time. Once it was possible to build something (iPhone) about 5x smaller, about 10x faster, with about 100x the connectivity, and about 10x the display resolution, that's when it really took off.
• swalsh 7y ago
  Yeah, but imagine getting in on Apple when the Newton was the big thing, and then staying for when the iPad was the real thing.