In the following video, Knight-Ridder predicted an iPad-like tablet in 1994 (of course, with iPad, the stylus is not included, but available if you’d like).
Also, check out the “news” list shown at the 6:59 mark:
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Steve Jobs dedicated “hour after hour” to the minutiae of product design at Apple, driven by a belief of God being in the details,…
So far, the killer apps for the Apple Vision Pro , besides watching movies and TV series, appear to be sports and concerts…
Apple TV+ on Wednesday revealed the trailer for “The Big Cigar,” the upcoming limited series led by André Holland, who stars alongside…
Apple’s current Mac Studio delivers next-generation speed, but the next-gen M4-powered Mac Studio promises to deliver breathtaking power…
…and apple predicted it in 1984 when I made the Newton!
Dont believe me? Compare the Newton tomthe kindle.
Apple is 20 years ahead of everyone else.
Trouble was, the Tablet was so incredibly expensive, that poor couple could only afford one plate of chicken curry…
I noticed that too. It’s so strange when they exchange the tablet for the plate and he just starts eating off it. Stranger still that he’s so preoccupied with the tablet and she’s not getting on his case to pay attention to her, but a I guess if you only have one meal, the more he’s preoccupied, the more she gets to eat.
I tried to find K-R’s stock symbol and couldn’t find it. I guess I don’t read enough newspapers. “Knight Ridder (pronounced /ˈrɪdər/) was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Until it was bought by The McClatchy Company on June 27, 2006, it was the second-largest newspaper publisher in the United States, with 32 daily newspapers.”
How could a company foresee the technological future so well and yet not figure out a business model that would allow print media to survive in the iPad age.
iPad-like? Or tablet-like??
I’m an Apple fan as much as the next guy, but geez people… get off Apple’s n*ts!
My brother wanted to borrow my compaq concerto (1992 486 tablet PC) to take to work because all the people in his office were getting iPads. Unfortunately I had sold it just months earlier as I never user it.
The concerto does the same things the ipad does, it just runs older hardware and software. You can even browse the web on it as mine had 8mb of ram and it would run windows 95 or 3.1 (pen version). I had a PCMCIA sound card so it could play music. Battery life was about 2-3 hours when new.
Oh and it came with a detachable PS/2 keyboard, you didn’t have to buy it separately, and the keyboard protected the screen. It also had handwriting recognition and an on screen keyboard of course. AND it had a built in stand so you didn’t have to sit it flat on the table.
All the other missing features like wireless could be added via the PCMCIA slots.
People forget iPad wasn’t the first tablet. It just made them more accessible and I think it didn’t hurt to have built a whole library of software for the iPhone people could use on it. Making it look cool and pleasing to the touch helped too.
And it had Siri… She asked the tablet to read the news article and it responded and then started to read it! (When she is driving her car)