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Steve Jobs Envisioned the iPad in 1983

imageWIS said:
In a massive twist of irony Alan Kay worked at Xerox PARC...!
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Alan Kay's DynaBook still couldn't escape from the keyboard. Steve's vision is to solely rely on human interaction. No keyboard, no mouse, no pen.

After seeing the iPhone, Alan told Steve that Apple should build a 10"x8" pad and it would own the world. But he didn't know that Steve was already working on the iPad.

The Xerox Parc computer was also half done. It had an expensive $100 mouse for the professionals. Apple developed a $15 version for the masses. The Xerox UI was just a white screen with non-overlapping windows. The Mac has overlapping windows from day one, a complete desktop metaphor with desk accessories and trash can.

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AidenShaw said:
For completeness, be sure to list Apple's monopolies.

;)
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Please list Apple monoplies. Android has larger marketshare because it's cheap.
 
Dang, I miss that dude. Hard to believe it will have been 1 year, in a few days.
 
The point isn't that he thought of the idea, or even that he took a stab at what it might look like. As many pointed out, any prop artist for a movie can do that.

The point is that he is the only one that made it. Which includes a vision for everything about the device. Looks, components, techology, market, etc.

Otherwise the director of all those movies would have done it decades earlier.
 
Can we just start predicting things and claim them later? I hereby predict the inductive charging used in common surfaces such as desks. Now if it happens, I was the one to call it. :p

Seriously though, Jobs had an amazing life and did some incredible stuff, but neither predicting nor inventing the tablet were one of those things.
 
Mcthings said:
The point isn't that he thought of the idea, or even that he took a stab at what it might look like. As many pointed out, any prop artist for a movie can do that.

The point is that he is the only one that made it. Which includes a vision for everything about the device. Looks, components, techology, market, etc.

Otherwise the director of all those movies would have done it decades earlier.
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Yap. He believed it truly enough to bet Apple's future on it, and made it happened. That's what count.

People can sit down in pubs and dream up all sorts of ideas. But at the end of the day, they are just dreams and fluffy words and bad breath.

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boss.king said:
Can we just start predicting things and claim them later? I hereby predict the inductive charging used in common surfaces such as desks. Now if it happens, I was the one to call it. :p

Seriously though, Jobs had an amazing life and did some incredible stuff, but neither predicting nor inventing the tablet were one of those things.
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I think he's a visionary because he saw it and realized it yesterday. He envisioned that it could be built and sold years back. The rest saw it and thought that's not it. Others saw it but couldn't realize it. What could they do now that the man showed them ?
 
viacavour said:
Please list Apple monoplies. Android has larger marketshare because it's cheap.
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Perhaps you fail to understand irony.... Google has no monopolies, neither do most of the other companies in the post to which I replied...

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fpsBeaTt said:
I don't think you, along with many others, know what the word 'visionary' means.
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I think that it means at least 250 micrograms of lysergic acid diethylamide....
 
pig pile said:
i don't think it was Steve Jobs that came up with this idea....Stanley Kubrick depicted an Ipad like device in his 2001 A Space Odyssey. Check it out.
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Not really. Those were more like thin, portable displays. They didn't really interact with them.especially in the scene in the photographs
 
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arunim said:
And this is news? How? front page???
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And what exactly does you posting that contribute? That's right, nothing! Get over it. :rolleyes:

Its an article about the cofounder of Apple and a product he envisioned. You think you could could do better than start your own site and only post stuff you think is news worthy...geeezzz some people. :rolleyes:
 
The original Mac concept was an inexpensive computer that anyone could use that cost $500. I'd say Apple finally delivered with the iPad. Just took time for the engineering and computing power to catch up with the concept. Nicely done Apple. Let's hope there are more concepts brewing in the R&D labs that will deliver even more amazing things in another 26 years.
 
AidenShaw said:
Perhaps you fail to understand irony.... Google has no monopolies, neither do most of the other companies in the post to which I replied...
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Google has a monopoly on the search business.
They own the lion share of search traffic outside China. MS and Yahoo tried to work together to combine their volume, but alas they are still too weak.

Android also has larger marketshare than iOS.

MS certainly has one for PC OS. Samsung has a few back home. Even the government officials have to give them face.
 
AidenShaw said:
Gee - "Star Trek" was showing "book computers" in 1966.

And none of them had wires connecting them to the mainframes....
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You do realize that making it into reality is quite another thing. Jobs was able to take something comceptual and make it into a marketable product. I have no idea who first thought about building a plane, but you still have to credit the people who actually built the stuff....Jobs was able to get a lot of good stuff built that became the template for other companies to follow and build upon.
 
arunim said:
And this is news? How? front page???
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Do you understand how a content management system works when publishing new content? Also since you don't own this website why don't you just allow Arn to publish whatever he wants without making ignorant comments. I venture to say that you wouldn't want someone telling you how to do your job, amIright?

Just for your edification, when publishing content in vBulletin or WordPress or Joomla or Drupal, the newest content always goes to the top of the articles list and the previous article is automatically moved one spot down. While Arn does have a Mac category and an iOS category it is logical for this particular post to be on the front page since its about a former well liked and revered Apple CEO.
 
cgk.emu said:
Hey, I'm still waiting for you to invent something on this magnitude. Oh wait, that will never happen, will it? This is news because this is well...Macrumors. Steve Jobs was CEO of Apple for a long time, did you somehow miss that while you were inventing stuff? Gah, there I go again...
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Don't act like Steve jobs solely invented the tablet. He had a lot of input from designers and the like.


James
 
Technology caught up with the idea of a pad and Steve was there to capitalize on it. There were many non-Apple pads used in vertical markets years before the ipad. There was even a laptop called Momenta with a monitor that could detach from its keyboard and be used alone.
 
AidenShaw said:
What federal court made this decision, or any of your other claims?
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MS was already convicted. >_<

Google is already being investigated officially by EU for its monopolistic behaviour in search business.

Samsung monopolies in Korea ? Do you understand Korean ? Go read up yourself. You may be able to glean some info from wiki.

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FieldingMellish said:
Technology caught up with the idea of a pad and Steve was there to capitalize on it. There were many non-Apple pads used in vertical markets years before the ipad. There was even a laptop called Momenta with a monitor that could detach from its keyboard and be used alone.
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None of these are mass market , user friendly product though. He envisioned iPad to be a layman's device. He championed user friendliness and accessibility while the rest of the industry were into power and beige.

The people he talked to in that recorded audio stream were not familiar with computers too.
 
Steve Jobs is the true visionary. His products made the world never the same ever again. Apple, will never be the same without him, his great products, and his presentations. It is not about brands (Samsung vs Apple), it is about the idea he gave to the world with his products. I cannot imagine a Samsung Galaxy being born without Steve Jobs.
:apple: RIP Steve Jobs 1955-2011 :apple:
 
You can claim others came up with the idea first, and for the most part you'd be correct. But he didn't see these ideas as just fantasies of a sci-fi future, he saw them as goals. The goal was to get these fantasy items into our everyday lives. With the the resources at Apple, he succeeded in making them not only a reality, but also making them affordable enough to be commonplace.for somebody to do this once, they would get called brilliant. For somebody to do it multiple times in their life, is really quite amazing.
 
They're just "things". Replaceable and far from essential.

It seems that his greatest contribution to mankind, was to give those who needed it, someone to look up to. He was, and is an important part of their lives.

One look at how fast this thread has grown, and all the fawning over Steve it contains, is proof positive. He certainly filled a need.
 
ixodes said:
They're just "things". Replaceable and far from essential.

It seems that his greatest contribution to mankind, was to give those who needed it, someone to look up to. He was, and is an important part of their lives.

One look at how fast this thread has grown, and all the fawning over Steve it contains, is proof positive. He certainly filled a need.
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Son, that man accelerated and elevated usability in computers, injected fashion sense into computers and computer retail, unified the so-fragmented phone market, saved the digital music industry from piracy.

The iPhone is not important because it is sexy. It is important because it single handedly unify the worldwide smartphone market. Before iPhone, all the handset makers were just souless, fragmented toys dictated by the telcos. The cellphone HTML standards were a big joke. The telcos buy/sell phones by a buffet style model. Basically, every phone is different, picked and chose feature by feature based on the telcos' wishes. As a cellphone app developer, you had to deal with 100-300 model quirks. Windows smartphone had too little volume. Java phones had better luck because they fully embraced this buffet style model, fragmenting the market even more.

iPhone came in and dictated the terms and platform. From that day onwards , the industry all just deal with 1-2 phone platforms; not 100s telcos.
 
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