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What an idiot !
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, August 17 2012 @ 02:07 PM EDT
Call people idiots that don't agree with you. Great argument.

That thing on Soylent Green looks to me to be a translucent clipboard with a
piece of paper on it. The paper is even offset from the center. And there is a

thick bar at the top. Looks nothing like an iPad or the iPad design patent.

http://imgur.com/aa4dd,2XNIF#0
http://imgur.com/aa4dd,2XNIF#1

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What an idiot !
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, August 18 2012 @ 11:39 AM EDT
It didn't take anyone 35 years to produce the design, we see it there in the photos, it took 35 years for the technologist to actually implement the design.

Nonsense - there have been tablet computers around for decades, e.g. the 1989 GRiDPad, a little something called the Apple Newton, Palm, Sharp Zaurus and Windows Tablet Edition computers. They could easily have been made as black, rounded rectangles with flat glass fronts (capacitative sensors that can work though glass are nothing new), aluminium bezels and gently curved backs. They'd have been an inch thick with lower res displays, but they'd have still looked like an iPad. They might have struggled to pre-empt some of the GUI features of the iPad, though.

Conversely, we have some modern tablets that manage to be big rectangular touchscreens without looking like the iPad's long-lost twin (e.g. Sony's tablet and the Asus transformer) simply by having a slightly different bezel. Microsoft has even managed to design a whole GUI that doesn't look like "iOS with widgets" (although the surface tablet itself looks hauntingly familiar).

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