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wmf
on Dec 5, 2011
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Behind RIM’s $485M Write-off
IIRC 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
on Dec 6, 2011
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The 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
on Dec 6, 2011
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I have heard that if you factor in the development costs, it was not profitable.
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