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> Even the iPad was because of the dinner he had at some MSFT employee's house. I call bullshit. Steve was interested in tablets since learning about Alan Kay'
by lukifer 15y ago
> Even the iPad was because of the dinner he had at some MSFT employee's house.
I call bullshit. Steve was interested in tablets since learning about Alan Kay's DynaBook concept in the 70's. The MSFT engineer angered him into pursuing the concept sooner, nothing more.
- warmfuzzykitten 15y agoNot quite. Steve liked DynaBook, but he thought it was a laptop computer. If he'd taken the job as head of Apple Research, that's what he would have produced. Apple had a tablet - the Newton - and Steve killed it when he came back. It turned out what he hated about tablets was the need for a stylus, which was the Microsoft approach (like the Newton), and that's what he wanted to prove wrong.
- pinwale 15y agoIt should be noted that Apple was interested in smart pens rather than styluses. Apple has at least 13 patents relating to smart pens. source: http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/09/apple-wins-a-patent-for-a-super-smart-pen-which-predates-livescribe.html http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2011/09/apple-wi...