Alan Kay: With the Tablet, Apple Will Rule the World

Re:Alan Kay: With the Tablet, Apple Will Rule the World by shalmanese on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @06:10PM (#1079188)

Real Story: Some off hand comment made over 2 years ago is dredged up to provide a tantalizing headline which is put in place solely to drive traffic.

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Re:Alan Kay: With the Tablet, Apple Will Rule the World by kqr2 on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @06:14PM (#1079198)

Well, he also claims to have spoken to Kay late last year:

Kay still wasn’t sure whether Apple would actually come out with a tablet when I talked to him late last year, noting that such a device could theoretically compete with the company’s iPhone business. But, he added: “I bet a thousand dollars that they had a five-by-eight-inch version for the last couple years in house.”

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Re:Alan Kay: With the Tablet, Apple Will Rule the World by blasdel on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @06:30PM (#1079238)

The original series of prototypes was called the SafariPad, and one of the form-factors was similarly Newton-sized. Apparently only good for surfing the web on the toilet.

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Re:Alan Kay: With the Tablet, Apple Will Rule the World by michaelcampbell on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @09:42AM (#1080572)

You say that like it's bad. =)

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