It seriously amazes me the amount of people who consider themselves "tech savvy" that cannot distinguish the difference.
I don't know how well a phone would work tied into an Ethernet connection. You'd have to have some seriously long cords available to be 'mobile'.
seems like the magnetic pull is already upon your person![]()
so steve wasn't BS when he said apple were making a tablet first and shelved it to develop the iphone...
Typically a prototype will look nothing like the final product.
Any embedded system starts life out in a similar fashion. Phones, tablets, etc. Even though that board looks nothing like an iPhone, at it's heart they are both the same (or in this case, very close to the original).
I bent my Wookie!
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I bent my Wookie!
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lol isn't this more like an iPad prototype?
so steve wasn't BS when he said apple were making a tablet first and shelved it to develop the iphone...
In the PC world... that is called a serial port.
This beast beats all of Samsung's gigantic phones!![]()
It was probably just for development's sake. Considering they were building a whole new platform from scratch, it was probably easier and more reliable to mess around with an Ethernet port than getting the WiFi protocol working from scratch. And eventually just have it as a fallback.
So while they were waiting for WiFi module + drivers to be written, or if WiFi broke via a patch, they could still do "something" to test the Internet integration / app store protocols / etc.
I mean, I've seen some prototypes for neat things... and some of the early EARLIEST stages of the prototypes were in large wooden enclosures instead of the cool+small+metal enclosures they wound up with.