You do wonder about Newton... But for the presence of better infrastructure (esp home networking, wifi, and 'fast enough' cellular), could Newton have become t

You do wonder about Newton... But for the presence of better infrastructure (esp home networking, wifi, and 'fast enough' cellular), could Newton have become the Next Big Thing in computing after Macintosh? I suspect that Jobs' learning first-hand about the need for essential infrastructure was essential to the iPhone successfully taking flight 15 years after (esp due to 3G).