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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Comcast today announced it will offer Apple Watch Series 4 with built-in cellular, the new 10.5-inch iPad Air, and the new 7.9-inch iPad mini…
Apple TV has grown to approximately 16% share of streaming TV devices in the U.S. as of Q219 and is projected to grow to over…
An 11-year-old boy had a narrow escape after his charging Samsung tablet overheated and burnt a hole in his bed…
Apple plans to transition to its own ARM-based processors in Macs starting as early as 2020, and the company recently made a significant hire…
A new iOS 13 feature called QuickPath is going to change the way you type on your iPhone…
This is not to say that there won’t be great examples of Catalyst apps, exemplars for other developers to follow…
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) today announced that it has released version 2.0 of the DisplayPort (DP) audio/video standard…
Apple again led S&P 500 companies in buybacks, spending a new record $23.8 billion in Q1…
Mac malware continues to increase in both quantity and variety…
Dark Mode. Privacy enhancements. All-new Maps. There are lots of big new features in iOS 13 to get excited about, but…
I forgot about the shoulder pad look.
I don’t remember hair being that bad back in 1994. This was post-Nirvana.
Be kind, these weren’t the hippest of folks.
Scary.
Lawsuits and claims of apple stealing ideas will sure to show up next.
Watch the video more closely. They use a Newton in there. Obviously, it was an inspiration for their “Tablet.”
sarcasm.
but you know someone will blame apple somewhere…
Actually, released Newton was the smallest of three designs that were planned and designed since 1987.
So yes, while Newton is the first actual PDA in contemporary meaning, it is also the first tablet.
Looks like they all have PowerBook Duo with Duo Dock on their desks. Wow, 1994 was when the very first PowerPC Macs were released; most Macs in use were still “68k.” Pretty good speculation from 17 years ago.
I would call this more than speculation. They do have a working prototype. They were a bit optimistic about customer loyalty to newspaper vendors. This story didn’t only predate iPads, it predates Google and their ad model. You can see that they were anticipating both in this story. This is fascinating.
I read that as Knight Rider, and I was about to get all impressed with David Hasselhoff. What a let down.
Lol I thought same thing.
Well, not the David hasselhoff part.. But KITT.
Same for me. The worst part, if true, it would have been from “Team Knight Rider” that was around 94 not 84. Never seen it? Count your blessings.
That was amazing how not far off they were. The concept of something close to printing but not a PC, post PC. Of course the iPad is much more, however the video almost sounds like iBooks. It is sad that the concept fell apart. MS’s inability to see a tablet as nothing more than a add on to a laptop stifled us for over a decade. Apple had all the vision and knowledge to get it done. I liked seeing all the old Mac’s in the background.
Sad that the “news” is almost the same, those were headlines from that time.
I predicted it in 1983.
Heck we saw them on Star Track 1970 era ….
“…turn pages just like you would with paper”
Yes, clicking a tiny icon with a stylus is just exactly like that. 😉
If they’d only known.
If you see a stylus, they blew it.
So, they ripped off the Knowledge Navigator from 7 years before.
That guy stole Steve Jobs’ glasses.
He also predicted Wolf Blitzer.
haha he looks like him