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). [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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