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Frog Design's Hartmut Esslinger Reveals Early Apple Designs in New Book
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Well Tesla was doing wireless remote control of boats in the early 20th century. It's nothing new.
Though given the commodity hardware at the time of that design I would guess for IR over RF wireless.
That's the obvious intention, throttled by practical limits of the technology at the time. Heck, the first model shown is an embryonic iPhone!
Sorry - I thought I found a copy of the book but it turned out to be another one with the same name ("Apple Design"). This one.
That book isn't the one you're referring to according to one Amazon.com review (which is what I meant by "Nope, not it"):
Well...He looks the way Lincoln would have looked if Lincoln had dodged Booths bullet. (Older Lincoln)
i knew i saw it on here earlier:
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=16514923#post16514923
interesting story. i hope ive will give us a similar peek in the future.
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=16514923#post16514923
interesting story. i hope ive will give us a similar peek in the future.
None of those devices would have been working prototypes. Frog Design would have purely been for concept output. Throw them at the apple engineers to see if they could actually build them (to a budget) and hence why we never actually saw them released at the time due to the lack of tech available - so, being that apple had contracted Frog to come up with concepts, apple therefore owned the concepts and sat on them until the tech was available in the late nineties, which also coincided with Jobs return where he decided to streamline the companies many models/options into the revolutionary line up that now resides.
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Ya I hadn't seen that before. Looks very modern and minimal, especially for the time! Nice design
In their day, these designs were so far ahead of their time! They still look functional as well as beautiful, by today's standards.
Wow how cool. An early iPhone (MacPhone) and that Baby Mac would've been an awesome evolution of the original Mac Plus.
Actually it really looks like the Apple //c's monitor with a slot loading media drive. Not even the first iMac had a slot loading drive (although it looks more like a 3.5" floppy drive). You could probably make one by getting a small LCD screen, mount it inside the case for the //c monitor and stick a mac mini inside it! The mini's bluetooth will take care of the wireless features.
Not IR...it would have been wireless tech similar to the frequencies cordless phones run on. It's easy to forget that the first "wireless" mice weren't infrared (which often requires line-of-sight), but were instead 'wireless banded radio'.
Apple had chose to abandon wireless radio on most of their developments and instead opted for the current "WiFi" technology we see today (which back then was rare).
