Hasta La Gadget!

By most accounts, the Newton Tablet was a product ahead of its time–so far ahead that the device was an utter failure. It wasn’t necessarily a bad product, it just arrived at the wrong moment. Let’s suppose for a moment that Apple was seeking to get back into the tablet fold, where would the company start looking? The old Newton team might not be a bad start.

After 15 years, Apple has re-hired Michael Tchao, a developer who was part of the original Newton team. That Tchao might play a role in the company’s much anticipated tablet is pure speculation, of course–after all, the existence of such a device is little more than rumor fodder at this point.

Apple, for it’s part, isn’t really discussing how it plans to utilize Tchao–but then, Apple doesn’t really talk about all that much.