&gt; Knowing that mobile became a huge hit in 2010 doesn&#x27;t really help the folks writing apps for NewtonScript in 1992 or Palm in 2000.<p>Which begs the question &quot;were predictions too early, or were early executions insufficient&quot;. There are a million examples of first movers who didn&#x27;t execute. Off the top of my head Yahoo, Blackberry, and IBM OS&#x2F;2 were first to market for generational techs and then lost.