Comments on: The iPhone started life as a “Safari Pad”? http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/04/the-iphone-started-life-as-a-safari-pad/ For people who dare to Phone Different. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:40:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Michael http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/04/the-iphone-started-life-as-a-safari-pad/comment-page-1/#comment-14020 Michael Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:08:43 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/04/the-iphone-started-life-as-a-safari-pad/#comment-14020 <p>Yeah, an iTablet would be cool, but I would like it to be the size of a touch screen MacBook. That would be awesome!</p> Yeah, an iTablet would be cool, but I would like it to be the size of a touch screen MacBook. That would be awesome!

]]> By: Rene Ritchie http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/04/the-iphone-started-life-as-a-safari-pad/comment-page-1/#comment-5539 Rene Ritchie Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:49:03 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/04/the-iphone-started-life-as-a-safari-pad/#comment-5539 <p>Nice story. That was my understanding as well, based on Wired and other comments; that Apple had a working tablet but Jobs never thought it would be a consumer-successful product and so, when Apple went phase 2 on their phone, sucked the tablet ideas into what became the iPhone.</p> <p>Does kinda make you lust for an iTablet, though. I don't know if it would be a Kindle-kind of device, but it would be the ultimate digital comic book reader :)</p> Nice story. That was my understanding as well, based on Wired and other comments; that Apple had a working tablet but Jobs never thought it would be a consumer-successful product and so, when Apple went phase 2 on their phone, sucked the tablet ideas into what became the iPhone.

Does kinda make you lust for an iTablet, though. I don’t know if it would be a Kindle-kind of device, but it would be the ultimate digital comic book reader :)

]]> By: Dieter Bohn http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/04/the-iphone-started-life-as-a-safari-pad/comment-page-1/#comment-5538 Dieter Bohn Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:08:14 +0000 http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2008/03/04/the-iphone-started-life-as-a-safari-pad/#comment-5538 <p>Actually, this fits with a Wired story from way back - the touch screen work was definitely just toying around with features for OS X originally.</p> Actually, this fits with a Wired story from way back – the touch screen work was definitely just toying around with features for OS X originally.

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