[maxxxxx]

It's definitely a gamble. When the Apple Newton came up I thought pen computing would be the future, threw everything into it and was at the forefront for a few years. But by 2000 or earlier it was pretty clear that I had bet on the wrong horse. I guess my lesson is to jump ship sooner but then you also often hear that perseverance is the key. Tough equation. Now my belief is that you have to be persistent but also need a lot of luck to be at the right place at the right time.

[pjc50]

The Apple Newton was clearly what happened when Jobs had the idea for the iPad 20 years before the technology could actually deliver a usable experience for it. And even then you can see sketches of it all the way back to the 60s: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CEc1OOGmA5IC&pg=PA91&lpg...

[kayfox]

Jobs had nothing to do with the Newton and killed it when he came back to Apple.