Prototype Original iPad with Dual Dock Connectors Surfaces

[Michael CM1]

Good that they didn't release it with the dual dock, it looks like crap. Glad Steve was there to exercise judgement. Sadly he is no longer with us and I wonder who ll exercise good judgement for apple these days, because neither lion nor the apple tv ui show there's someone there capable of doing so.

Apparently you never owned a first-gen Apple TV, which was something Jobs worked on. He was not without his faults. MobileMe early adopters, care to chime in?

I don't know where the hatred for Lion comes from. It's awesome. I can't stand using Snow Leopard at work just for the old-style Mail application. I don't need every email single file when I get about 100 emails a day.

 

[Bheleu]

I would've liked to seen this on mine. It would have given me a better cabling option when I hang it under the top bunk my of my bunk bed while watching movies.

Plus if one port ever died, you would have a backup port.

 

[jhromeror]

kbd dock

Hey, this would've made that keyboard dock apple decided to scrap after one generation actually usable.

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In da zoo rule numba one is: don't feed da troll!

My guess is that the keyboard option was there to help buyers lessen the fear of having no keyboard at all.

 

[TruthWatcher412]

Was it found in a bar?

 

[Rogifan]

Good that they didn't release it with the dual dock, it looks like crap. Glad Steve was there to exercise judgement. Sadly he is no longer with us and I wonder who ll exercise good judgement for apple these days, because neither lion nor the apple tv ui show there's someone there capable of doing so.

How do you know Steve put the kibash on this? God I'm sick of this thinking that all decisions (or good decisions) were made by Steve and only Steve. Let's not forget it was Steve who didn't want to bring iTunes to Windows, didn't want 3rd party apps on the iPhone. There are a lot of very smart and innovative people working at Apple. Apple's success isn't down to one man.

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Well, this comment turns it into a semantic discussion.

From a legal standpoint, yes, it is Apple's property.

From a sales and marketing standpoint, it is not really "Apple" as in a real Apple product that the company stands behind from an engineering, marketing, sales, and support perspective. Of the hundreds of prototypes that may exist at any given time in Apple's labs, only a few are given the approval to be sold.

It's Apple property, but it's not Apple enough to have its own web page at www.apple.com and come in a nice box with the Apple logo.

I one read a blog post from someone who met Jony Ive and Ive told him that 80% of what they do never sees the light of day because it doesn't meet their high standards, it isn't good enough.

 

[vmachiel]

Nice, i would love to see the new iPad as a competitor to the transformer prime

 

[sclawis300]

How exactly can he post that it works....well you know except for the touch screen part. If the touch screen on a touch screen tablet is broken, then I am pretty sure the thing does not work.

 

[MagicBoy]

Awaiting the takedown...

 

[baryon]

Whoever buys this, Apple will want it back…

 

[Navdakilla]

Sometimes I ger frustrated that the ipad doesn't have duel connections, it would make docking/charging stations more mainstream,
however I do like the simplicity/design without 2 connections, so I guess I'm a satisfied customer

 

[Michaelgtrusa]

Well wow.

 

[markcres]

Can't wait for Tim "Commu-apple-" Cookster to send police to get this down. Only Apple would do this, in fear of losing potential buyers of their current devices. Not Samsung, not Asus, no one would do this but the Communist-Manifesto Freaks known as Apple. Sorry this is just a vent, angers me how this collective group of abusers can get away with this

I think of Apple as more corporate fascists than communists - but sometimes it is difficult to tell them apart.

The brainwashed fanboys will vote you down, tell you to get lost, accuse you of being a troll etc..but that is because they don't believe in freedom of speech....they are anti-freedom-of-speech !

 

[ChrisTX]

With that prototype UI, we're they also considering some type of phone functionality with the iPad?

Judging by the down ranks perhaps it was an ignorant question on my part but what is that phone icon all about? There was no mention of it in the article.

 

[AcesHigh87]

Judging by the down ranks perhaps it was an ignorant question on my part but what is that phone icon all about? There was no mention of it in the article.

Probably a generic prototype UI, same as what would be used on the iPhones. I doubt they bothered to design an entire UI just for their prototypes when they could easily just up-scale one they already had.

 

[669532]

I think he was making a witty comment

someone understands... as if apple would EVER have stuck with that UI

 

[goobot]

What's this?

 

[Negritude]

Can't wait for Tim "Commu-apple-" Cookster to send police to get this down. Only Apple would do this, in fear of losing potential buyers of their current devices. Not Samsung, not Asus, no one would do this but the Communist-Manifesto Freaks known as Apple. Sorry this is just a vent, angers me how this collective group of abusers can get away with this

Impressively ignorant. Not only did you insult Tim Cook and Apple, but you also insulted good Communists, people with utopian ideals who don't and have never believed in any form of totalitarianism.

 

[Pegamush]

how long people will keep commenting something like: "what would steve jobs have done" "what would steve jobs have thought" as if you knew him so personally to know?
please stop.

i wish i had someone/something to keep me from reading stupid comments all the time i open a forum..

(fyi, i'd like the double connector, maybe it'll be the new big feature in "the new ipad 2" )

 

[Konrad]

Whoever buys this, Apple will want it back…

Why?

 

[Mars478]

What's this?

judging by some of the other pictures it just looks to be a blemish or a nick in the metal...

 

[eyebex]

Overpriced, IMHO

I notice that this item has 1272 unique reviews on ebay. I could see how some freak apple fanperson would pay five grand for this if it were a one-of-a-kind but since at least 1272 other folk have this thing, one would have to be insane to pay the asking price.

 

[blow45]

Uhhh. The article never said Steve was the one who decided not to put the dual docks in... And he was also around for Lion and Apple TV.... Apple is a big company; not all great decisions were Steve's. Even the bad ideas at Apple had to have gone through Steve Jobs at one point or another while he was CEO.

Who do you think did decide to not put the dual docks in ?

No apple tv was released way post Steve, and he was never hands on with lion, just see the keynote, the man is dying for christs sake.

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Jony Ive is still there to exercise judgement on hardware. It seems he has no control over software according to recent coverage.

Exactly, and as you see I didn't mention anything hardware related. . And as you might have read when asked about the look of lion Ive pulled a face and said its not something I deal with.

 

[Lynn Belvedere]

Honest question: who cares?

 

[blow45]

If you've read the Steve Jobs BIO, it's pretty clear that Jony Ive may be a bigger fanatic of clear and fancy designs than Steve itself was. And all the cool looking Apple products (from the first iMac) were designed mostly by Jony. And there are a lot more really talented people at Apple (take a look at Randy Ubillos for example, the guy does unbelievably cool job with iMovie for Mac and iPhoto for iPad). I'm not worried about the future of Apple, with these gifted guys it should be only good.

Ui design wise the talent a lot of talent is gone, and the final judgment is in the hands of people no very competent, don't take my word for it, read what virtually everyone in the design community is saying about say the new atv ui, even former apple folk. I love big and fancy and loved the first iMacs, but Steve had a final say over ui, which is currently going to **** with lion and atv. Ive knows well that big and fancy in apliance design doesn't translate well to ui, cause he's intelligent. If Steve had gone a few years before os x would have ended looking probably like some fisher price windows monstrosity, much like the way it's starting to look like these days with the superfluous crap added.

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How do you know Steve put the kibash on this? God I'm sick of this thinking that all decisions (or good decisions) were made by Steve and only Steve. Let's not forget it was Steve who didn't want to bring iTunes to Windows, didn't want 3rd party apps on the iPhone. There are a lot of very smart and innovative people working at Apple. Apple's success isn't down to one man.

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I one read a blog post from someone who met Jony Ive and Ive told him that 80% of what they do never sees the light of day because it doesn't meet their high standards, it isn't good enough.

You are kidding right? The iPad was Steves baby and he put it on hold for the iPhone, it was the culmination of his work at apple and you think he didn't have the final say and choice over its design. I bet you anything you want, because Steve appreciated aesthetics that a few years ago in some office at apple he said, it's practical the dual dock but it looks like ****, kill it.

 

[APlotdevice]

The one thing that has always bugged me about the iPad's design is the position of the dock connector. Having a landscape oriented one, either in this dual-dock configuration or even just exclusively, would have made the standard dock useful for watching movies.