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Yeah, they'd messed with a clunky tablet for years. Then they finally developed a glass display that scrolled with touch and thought, "This would be better in
by pico303 6y ago
Yeah, they'd messed with a clunky tablet for years. Then they finally developed a glass display that scrolled with touch and thought, "This would be better in a phone." I don't know if that really qualifies the iPhone as a "spinoff" of the Folio, or the Folio as even a predecessor to the iPad.
- valuearb 6y agoFolio was going to ship, but Jobs canceled it because it wasn’t good enough yet but let the team adapt it to a phone. And I worked on the Pen Mac about fifteen years prior, so with that and Newton, Apple was working on the concept forever.