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I would appreciate if you include a picture with your post. You may also private message it to me. :)

I ain't got no shame, so I'll post mine right here for everyone to see!

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"What are tablets good for besides surfing the Web in the bathroom?" - Jobs to staff 2003

Well done Sir! You think like Steve Jobs! This statement is very true! i use my iPad in the toilet a fair bit!
 
The better part of a decade. Did Apple just slap something together and call it a day? Did they get it working good enough they could sell it with the tech they had on hand? Throw something at the market just so they could compete? No. No. And No. People can trash talk, beat around the bush, make excuses, pontificate, fill in with anecdotes and come up with all the reasons they want all day long. But this is the kind of company Jobs built.

Wait.

Is it right?

Is this the right product?

For now?

Should it be better?

Can it be better?

Let's wait.

Let's make it better.

And when it's perfect.

As perfect as we can get it.

Then we will sell the **** out of it.


I can only imagine what's in their labs now.
 
Wait.
Is it right?
Is this the right product?
For now?
Should it be better?
Can it be better?
Let's wait.
Let's make it better.
And when it's perfect.
As perfect as we can get it.
Then we will sell the **** out of it.
I can only imagine what's in their labs now.

You've not only been drinking the Kool-Aid, you've been drinking the spiked Kool-Aid.

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Damn, I wish that I were good enough with Photoshop to add an Absolut Apple overlay to that picture.

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extra powder

You've not only been drinking the Kool-Aid, you've been drinking the spiked Kool-Aid.

Yeah, that's real funny I guess. And you, imaginably, like using technology, which, while cram packed with every feature possible, is horrendously unrefined, overly complex and complicated to use, such that the average person must overcome arbitrary hurdles on an hourly basis just to get something done.

And you know, that's just fine. If you like using that type of technology, I really don't care. I was just expressing my admiration for a company that goes out of it's way to make my life a little easier for getting my work done. When I get home.. Since I have to put up with the other crap all day at work.
 
Now show me the Samsung Tab or google Nexus Tab mockups from 2002 please? Android fanboiis? Kindly please?

I remember reading somewhere awhile ago that Steve Jobs saw Android in development but did not find it a threat because it was only being tested on phones similar to blackberrys. Once google saw the iPhone change the smartphone market mostly to touchscreen phones they changed development to that form factor.
 
personally i believe this could have easily been a hotseller like the ipods back then.

There have been touch Macs available third party for a long time. I don't think they sell very well. It's the usual need-a-touch-OS problem.

but internet usage was not that strong back then like it is today, which solely has made ipad what it is today, its how we use and what we use it for!

Exactly. Back then, tablets actually needed a landline modem port to communicate and/or a compact flash slot to plug in an even slower wireless modem.

It just wasn't time yet for an iPad type of tablet, even though others had tried to make exactly that now and again through the years.

Sounds like Ives wasn't responsible for the iPad design.

He and about a dozen others are listed on the iPad design patent. As far as the tablet prototype, as I've posted elsewhere, it has Ive's "disciple of Rams" mode written all over it:

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I remember reading somewhere awhile ago that Steve Jobs saw Android in development but did not find it a threat because it was only being tested on phones similar to blackberrys.

Inexperienced reporters said Blackberry, but the devices were actually Windows Mobile phones. Which clearly meant there would be both touch and non-touch versions.

Once google saw the iPhone change the smartphone market mostly to touchscreen phones they changed development to that form factor.

All touch was the top fashion for 2006 concept phones.

My question is, what if Apple had actually followed through with their original plan to make an iPod-wheel controlled phone? Makes me shiver :)
 
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