Indeed, there are quite a few similar examples. Remember CUSeeMe, an early VoIP app? Now all but forgotten outside the HN crowd, and yet Skype managed quite wel

Indeed, there are quite a few similar examples. Remember CUSeeMe, an early VoIP app? Now all but forgotten outside the HN crowd, and yet Skype managed quite well several years later. One could argue the Newton falls into that category, coming simply too early for pervasive (sometimes) high speed cellular data, where Palm/Handspring and RIM fared so well - even if transiently - later on.