Post: The early-2000 iPad prototype that Jobs trashed
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07-18-2012, 03:58 PM
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Pixie Lott
Keep it MeLLo
It’s referred to as the 035 mockup and depicts a thick device made of plastic and without the physical home button. It’s a far cry from today’s iPad, but at the time must have been pretty futuristic. Looking at these pictures, we’re happy that Steve Jobs axed the tablet project a couple times due to weight, excessive power requirements and sluggishness exhibited by the early prototypes…
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The iPad of course influenced the tablet design as much as the iPhone defined the direction for all smartphones to come.
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UPDATE more pics ..
Also this is interesting..
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07-18-2012, 08:34 PM
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Coqui
Former Staff
Originally posted by Pixie
Not so much Apple News in the past 2 weeks .. So thought i would post this ..
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It’s referred to as the 035 mockup and depicts a thick device made of plastic and without the physical home button. It’s a far cry from today’s iPad, but at the time must have been pretty futuristic. Looking at these pictures, we’re happy that Steve Jobs axed the tablet project a couple times due to weight, excessive power requirements and sluggishness exhibited by the early prototypes…
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The iPad of course influenced the tablet design as much as the iPhone defined the direction for all smartphones to come.
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Apple have been receiving thing from beta stages that's why they can always make revolutionary things. The biggest thing is not a complete device actually it is the multi-touch screen Apple change everything when they show that.
07-21-2012, 05:26 AM
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Wickettaker
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07-21-2012, 05:33 AM
#7
Coqui
Former Staff
Originally posted by Wickettaker
I really wonder if the iPad prototypes still ran iOS or just Mac OS as a whole. Creative, futuristic, and simplistic! 
Steve 
Steve
Well iOS is a customized version of Mac OS so I think Apple use a "mobile version" of Mac OS for this. But nothing compared to what is iOS now. ^^
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