Thanks for the long reply to the article. I fixed the typos...
Actually, the Apple PDA Jobs refers to in 2004 was not a phone, it was just a PDA. They had been researching and developing, quietly, for a few years something that would take the place of a Newton. I did see one prototype of it (an image), that I think was real, many years ago. It had a sort of iBook Dual USB feel, with shiny white plastic and nice, rounded edges. It was smaller than a Newton but bigger than most PDAs. It had one bubble button on the bottom centre with a left and right, up and down frame. It looked really cool, but...
It made sense: PDAs were still kinda not a bad market in the early 2000s, and Apple was probably being hounded by customers to make one: to have a Newton successor. In the end, they saw little utility in such a device and never marketed it. They were right. Pocket PDAs are a losing market, where all in one devices like the iPhone are much better. Smartphones, rather than PDAs are what people buy.
To be sure of Apple's position, just around the time they killed the PDA, they started work on the iPhone. They took their multi-touch OS research from their Tablet project and applied it to the iPhone.
What I am hoping for is they give us a Hybrid iPhone/OS X for the OS.
On Sunday, November 23, 2008, at 04:07PM, "Ryan Vetter" <ryanv@me.com> wrote:
>I wrote a new article on an Apple Tablet, you all might be interested:
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>http://www.thisoldmac.ca/wordpress/2008/11/23/what-an-apple-tablet-means-and-what-it-should-be/
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