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Ever since the first Palm PDA came out, it was obvious that the iPhone was going to happen. I was drooling for something like it back in '98 ... '99, or wheneve
by Florin_Andrei 15y ago
Ever since the first Palm PDA came out, it was obvious that the iPhone was going to happen. I was drooling for something like it back in '98 ... '99, or whenever it was that I bought my first Palm. I was like, "okay, now let's combine this with a cell phone, and add more CPU, and more memory, and a color screen, and..."
Alas, it was not to be, yet. But then it did happen.
- joezydeco 15y agoWell, you can go back farther to Alan Kay's Dynabook (1968) to predict the iPhone. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook) Even Jobs has wanted to make a Dynabook from the early days (http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Pirate_Flag.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Pirate_Flag.txt). There was also the crew from UIUC that won Apple's "Design the Computer of the Year 2000" back in 1987. Their design? A tablet.
- Florin_Andrei 15y ago> the crew from UIUC that won Apple's "Design the Computer of the Year 2000" back in 1987. Their design? A tablet. Star Trek TNG also featured imagined tablets, and they started out roughly around the same time. The design just makes sense, it's natural.