Steve Jobs is releasing heaps of interesting information during his talk at the D8 conference. This time round it’s regarding the development timeline of the iPad and iPhone.
Contrary to what many had believed, Jobs says the iPad as a concept came before the iPhone.
Jobs says:
I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display you could type on. I asked our people about it. And six months later they came back with this amazing display. And I gave it to one of our really brilliant UI guys. He then got inertial scrolling working and some other things, and I thought, ‘my god, we can build a phone with this’ and we put the tablet aside, and we went to work on the phone.
Interestingly, as a reader points out below, the project was reportedly called “Safari Pad.”
This was already common knowledge. The project was called “Safari pad” and it was scrapped a number of times over the years because of battery life issues.
interesting. I definitely wasn’t aware of that.
I wasn’t aware of that either. Thanks for pointing it out, Frank.
me either~
I wasn’t aware of that either — however, now that I am, I hope to lead a more fulfilling life :)
I didn’t know that… but I remember when I first got an iPod Touch for my son thinking “wow, this would be great if it was bigger and worked away from home”
Interesting~
Apple had tablets going back to the Newton days. I saw them. I understand everything about the Newton is/was different than iPhone OS, but still… Jobs didn’t come up with any tablet idea… The tablet has been alive at Apple for years and years…
Many of the innovations we’ve seen with the iPad were already shown in shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Hello,
I like to know about what steve says.he was sick of being trashed by Adobe over Flash, and stands by the fact he asked Adobe to visit Apple when they had Flash running fast, but they never came back.
This is worth matter for professionals like us. Thanks.