Thursday, July 19, 2012
Whose iPad actually is?
The idea to ditch the keyboard for what Jobs calls a multi-touch display came about in the early 2000s.
The picture left comes from a 1999 slide presentation about a business development activity at Philips labeled the iHome project; a version of it used a special symbol based on the @ sign with a picture of a home was created for this project aimed a devices that combined media content display, user interaction and communications. One of the products was a PDA. Now, who will pay Apple for iPad patent? More pictures on Apple patent claims back to 2002 here.
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