Jobs- iPad came before iPhone
In an interesting turn of events, Steve Jobs revealed at an important national conference that the iPad tablet computer actually predated the iPhone by a significant amount of time, in the early years of the century.
Speaking during an interview at the D: All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Jobs said that the idea of the multi-touch display happened around the development of a sort of tablet computer in the early 2000s, according to an AP story. He first saw it on a prototype of a tablet computer from Apple’s R&D labs. Jobs says he looked at it, with it’s touch-to-scroll mechanism, and remembered “I thought, ‘My God we can build a phone out of this.’” And, of course, the rest is history, although now it is stood on its head a bit.
Apple was already working on a cell phone at that time, but Jobs saw a new paradigm in the digital world, and the Apple CEO then oversaw several years of iPhone development, culminating n the 2007 release of the iPhone and its groundbreaking technology. After three years of success for the Apple handset, Jobs followed up with the end result of the original multi-touch concept, the iPad tablet computer. It is possible that the popularity of the iPad is due to the way that the iPhone paved the way for such devices, as the iPad will pave the way for a wave of other tablet computers.
On another front, Jobs was asked about AT&T. He acknowledged that the wireless carrier was having problems, but said that they were still the fastest wireless network in the land, and that the carrier had played a pivotal role in the success of the iPhone. Jobs also expressed dissatisfaction with the speed at which AT&T was making improvements and said that Apple might be better off with additional carriers selling the iPhone, although he would not say when that might happen.
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