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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 08:03 PM EDT |
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Apple
re-entered the mobile-computing markets in 2007 with the iPhone. Smaller than
the iPad but featuring a camera and mobile phone, it pioneered the multitouch
finger-sensitive touchscreen interface of Apple's iOS mobile operating system.
By late 2009, the iPad's release had been rumored for several years. Such
speculation mostly talked about "Apple's tablet"; specific names included
iTablet and iSlate.[26] The actual name is reportedly a homage to the Star
Trek PADD, a fictional device very similar in appearance to the iPad.[27]
The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010, by Steve Jobs at an Apple press
conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San
Francisco.[28][29]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 11:28 PM EDT |
The first place where they thought about a touch device was a pad/tablet,
but they couldn't figure out how to bring that to market. Then they thought
about phones. The decision, was not as you describe it, at the last
minute. Apple is not misrepresenting its time developing the
iPhone.
Having heard Jobs say that the iPad concept came first, I take it
to mean that
the touch pad/tablet was an idea too far ahead of the consumer. So
they
introduced consumers to touch with the iPhone. A year later, we get apps,
and
the phone takes off, which means the learning curve issue for touch on a
bigger
screen device is solved, and the iPad arrives. As you may recall,
the iPad
was derided as being a large iPhone. Exactly. Exactly. Except for no
phone. But a
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, August 21 2012 @ 11:48 PM EDT |
Absolutely! .....and they never produced a working model
tablet ever. Whereas Roger Fidler had a working prototype from
Toshiba in 2007. Apple didn't even have a Touchscreen OS and
still don't have one to this day on desktops. In fact Apple
did not even hire their first Touchscreen Engineer until
November 2004 after they'd only recently applied for their
first touch screen patent at Steve's urging. That's a fact,
because it was stated in the job listing specially for a lead
Touch screen Engineer for a non-disclosed Apple project.
A lead touch screen engineer is the first one you hire if you
are going to develop a Touchscreen Device. Because you must
have the framework in place to design the OS and UI around.
This was the primary problem for companies like HTC w/ iPaq
along with Windows tablets. Microsoft had no native Touch
framework in place, they were all add-ons. Meaning companies
like Samsung, LG, were also working blind by having to write
things like Sense and TouchWiz UI's, without a basic touch
interface framework in the WinMo OS itself. Microsoft has
never caught up and their failure is their own dam fault.
That's why it's really sad that Linux wasn't getting it's due
respect for having the first real working Touchscreen
framework in place, long before any one else on Desktops.
Here's one video of Gentoo Linux in 2006, but it was far from
the first demo. Linux had a native touch framework in place in
2003/2005 and in fact the Touchscreen Engineer Apple got was
either hired out of the Open Source Community Project or from
Nokia (terminated) large tablet project:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9FgLr9oTk
Nokia too had been working on a button less front tablet with
a full touch UI and even demoed it behind closed doors in
2004. Here's their first Internet pocket Tablet in 2007!
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| Authored by: DannyB on Wednesday, August 22 2012 @ 03:56 PM EDT |
Does it matter? What the rest of the world is doing doesn't come to a
standstill because of something Apple may or may not be working on in secret.
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