Apple Wanted to Make The iPhone Back in 1983
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Apple Wanted to Make The iPhone Back in 1983
This is really surprising: it seems Apple's ambitions of entering the phone market dated back to the early days of Apple.
Hartmut Esslinger, founder of design firm frog design, designed a touchscreen phone prototype for Apple while he was under contract by the company to work on projects like the Apple IIc.
If you've read Steve Jobs' biography, you might remember frog design as the company that won an Apple contest intended to create a "consistent design language" for all Apple products.
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I wonder if you could jailbreak it
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Now i know where was ipad design originated. Lol :)
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Mmmmmm! interesting
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For the record, back then AT&T was Cingular.
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um.. no
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They have been around for over 100 years in some form or another they just keep buying selling themselves and change the name Cingular was just a subsidiary started in 2000. I don't work for AT&T just don't like misinformation.
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In 2003, yes. In 1983, NO.
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Nothing like the iPhone. Really Apple wants to say that they was gonna release an iPhone in 1983. iPhone is wireless and thats a land line phone. Next thing you know Apple will say that they actually had a working Delorean.
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probably still better than a blackberry
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you know it
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dont click its a scam!
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Hmm I think he just knew it wasn't the right time for such a product.The cost probably didn't match the demand at the time.Interesting though
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Huh?!You must black..and stupid.
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That would of be a nice invention in those times. Looks great and modernize
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If they launched it then, they would not re-invent the phone in 2007
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I think the internet is abuzz with much ado about nothing with respect to this prototype, which has been no secret to some of us for a while now. We can only speculate how serious Apple was in pursuing a communications device of this form factor at the time. My assumption is this is a forward looking concept, not a serious product goal, driven by Steve Jobs' fixation on making the personal computer an "appliance".It would be nice to interview Apple or Frog Design employees from the era for some perspective.
