Apple’s iPad prototypes from 2002-4 pulled from Jony Ive deposition(9to5mac.com)

Apple’s iPad prototypes from 2002-4 pulled from Jony Ive deposition

http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/18/earliest-known-photos-of-apples-ipad-prototypes-gallery-pulled-from-jony-ive-deposition

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tieno14 anni fa

It’s pretty astonishing to think that Jony Ive was working on the design of that thing for eight years until it finally came to market.

This also seems like a perfect demonstration of Apple’s outstanding patience and timing. Microsoft(’s partners) was (were) making tablets in 2002. (As a niche product, basically.) Apple could probably also have brought one to market (probably with some sort of desktop CPU and running a mostly unchanged OS X) around that time had they really wanted to – but they didn’t.

They waited until the right technology (mobile CPUs, capacitive touch screens, …) at the right price and the right software was available to them.

Am I completely wrong in suspecting that in many other companies a prototype like that would either be pushed to market prematurely or killed outright because it wasn’t possible to turn it into a viable product for five years, how is that supposed to change now.