And Apple beat that by 8 years with the Newton.<p>(And Wang beat <i>that</i> by several years with a 3&quot; thick monstrosity that, IIRC, went nowhere.)<p>Yes, the trolling reoccurs. Key is how excited the marketplace is for which product, naysayers aside. As others note: the iPod wasn&#x27;t new, but it was subjectively better than anything else out there.