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Wow that was visionary! </sarcasm> if it wasnt for the fact that Alan Kay had invented the dynabook concept in 1968 and had cardboard prototype of an ipad in 19
by elviejo 14y ago
Wow that was visionary! </sarcasm> if it wasnt for the fact that Alan Kay had invented the dynabook concept in 1968 and had cardboard prototype of an ipad in 1972. And he went and helped create that vision in xerox parc.
and later went to work for apple were jobs was able to copy more of his ideas.
So yeah what a prediction say in 1983 what Alan Kay invented in 1968.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
- DeepDuh 14y agoYou sound bitter. So other people have thought of and built parts of what jobs' team brought together, ergo Jobs was not a visionary? You can hate Apple and SJ's personality as much as you want, but don't let it blind you. Lisa and Mac invented more over the Xerox UI than you think, plus they got the license from Xerox in a fair deal against shares.
- elviejo 14y agoYou mean the macintosh project that Steve Jobs took away from its original inventor Jeff Raskin? Im not bitter it just bothersme the fanboyism that is so prevalent in Sillicon Valley...if we want to improve our craft we need to know it's history.
- rmrfrmrf 14y agoJef Raskin was an Apple employee who was responsible for the Macintosh project. Please stop trolling.
- simonh 14y agoExcept that Raskin's vision for the Mac was completely different from the direction Steve took it in. That's not speculation, we know what Raskin wanted the Mac to be because he founded a separate company and implemented it as SwyftWare and later the Canon Cat. Raskin's plans for the 'Mac' interface didn't even use a GUI, it was entirely text based.