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>Playboy: And in the meantime? >Jobs: The developments will be in making the products more and more portable... maybe the merging of the telephone and the pers
by fredliu 9y ago
>Playboy: And in the meantime?
>Jobs: The developments will be in making the products more and more portable... maybe the merging of the telephone and the personal computer.
Hard to believe this was 1984, it almost sounded like the original iPhone was 20+ years in baking
- digi_owl 9y agoDepends on how much one read into the whole "merging" thing. Hindsight is 20/20 as they say...
- mikeash 9y agoEspecially since not “telephone” and “computer” implied non-portability at the time. A pretty prescient statement even so.
- rospaya 9y agoWell the first smartphone was prototyped around 1992 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon