Wow! When Apple revealed its plans about the iPad, whole world was astonished. When it was about to unveil it, most of the blogs were busy guessing its name, whether it would be iSlate, iTablet etc.
But Wired already knew that Steve Jobs would be coming up with a “Wireless Handheld,” in the future, dubbed the iPad, and that too 11 years ago in 1999!
Check out this photo (which looks like its taken from the Wired Magazine) :-
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…The next iMac attac promises new lollipop laptops, a more serious series of professional machines, and a wireless handheld dubbed the iPad…
Surprised, right?
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Nice find. It’s always cool to read past predictions that are bang on (as well as the ones that turn out to be ludicrously off-target).
Yesterday, I read a similar story here. This guy had predicted Apple’s success with iPhone back in 2004, and that too in a footnote!
Wow ya he predicted it so before ^_^
Yeah, well, Apple was originally targeting the iPad as a product before the iPhone. It’s that the iPhone was a down-sized iPad rather than the iPad being an up-sized iPhone. The opportunity and market realities of the iPod success make it clear a short detour (to the iPhone) was best.
Look at the iPad and compare it to Alan Kay’s Dynabook concept from 1968 and consider that Alan Kay worked at Xerox PARC and on the Altos and Star that were the inspiration of the Lisa & Macintosh computers and that Alan Kay was at Apple for a while. A thread runs through it.
A tablet – yeah. But this proves that they had the name down at apple for ages before even working on it.
Perhaps they came up with ‘iPad’ before they came up with ‘iPod’ =D “What shall we call this mp3 player? Huh – remember that iPad idea? let’s just use that but with an ‘o’ “
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Haha ya who knows, maybe jobs had thought this way only :p