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Re:A look at an original iPhone prototype by ianhowson on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:46AM (#19450792)
I always imagined that the iPad came about because some engineer had a Retina iPhone prototype on a standard 72dpi screen and figured it might work to replace a laptop.

Take the old eMac software, and bam, iPad.

(100% speculation)

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Re:A look at an original iPhone prototype by saagarjha on Thursday March 21, 2019 @06:58AM (#19450861)
I believe “iPad” was actually being developed prior to iPhone and was put on pause while multitouch and other technology was lifted from the project to support iPhone.
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Re:A look at an original iPhone prototype by sjwright on Thursday March 21, 2019 @07:19AM (#19451001)
That's how Steve Jobs tells it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5f8bqYYwps&t=2233

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Re:A look at an original iPhone prototype by rvense on Thursday March 21, 2019 @07:37AM (#19451114)
The iPad was actually conceptualized before the desktop workstation was common:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook

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Re:A look at an original iPhone prototype by ddalex on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:29AM (#19452724)
The iPad was conceptualized as a thin touch screen no-keyboard slate since at least 1992 in Star Trek TNG [0]

[0] https://i1.wp.com/www.techdigest.tv/star-trek-tablet.jpg?res...

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Re:A look at an original iPhone prototype by joezydeco on Thursday March 21, 2019 @10:12PM (#19459111)
The iPad was also conceptualized in 1988 as "Tablet", the winning entry in the Apple Computer "Design the Computer of the Year 2000" contest.

https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/tablet-...

One of the members of the winning team was Stephen Wolfram.

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Re:A look at an original iPhone prototype by monocasa on Thursday March 21, 2019 @12:49PM (#19454446)
How about 1960s, with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/did-st...

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Re:A look at an original iPhone prototype by mercutio2 on Thursday March 21, 2019 @11:08AM (#19453181)
DynaBook was long, long before STtNG.
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