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Slightly different fail in the Newton's case. The tablet/PDA/smartphone/MID/palmtop market was niche at best and effectively non-existent at worst when the Newt
by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Slightly different fail in the Newton's case. The tablet/PDA/smartphone/MID/palmtop market was niche at best and effectively non-existent at worst when the Newton came out; it simply was in too small of a market to go anywhere. The PlayBook, OTOH, showed up in a crowded, relatively well-established market, and so far has almost totally failed to get traction with either developers or customers.
- wmf 15y agoIIRC the Palm Pilot outsold Newton by a large factor during the same years, so Newton was a failure even relative to the size of the market.
- mikeash 15y agoThe Newton was supposedly profitable for Apple. It was killed not because it lost money, but because it was overall not a good use of resources for Apple despite making a modest amount of money.
- protomyth 15y agoI have heard that if you factor in the development costs, it was not profitable.