Apple once considered developing a tablet – the story of the project
Apple once stirred up the tech world. In fact, the buzz was caused by leaks. The company was planning to create a tablet computer. Chinese sources wrote that Quanta would create a 15-inch touchscreen tablet PC with a detachable keyboard https://xrust.ru/. Apple was reportedly set to release the device in the first quarter of 2006. Rumors spoke of a secret project called the Apple iPad. The idea of creating a tablet had fascinated Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for a long time, although he denied it. However, analysts doubted his sincerity, as he always leaned towards minimalism. And a tablet is essentially just a display. During Jobs’ absence from Apple, the company experimented with mobile devices resembling tablets. By the early 2000s, developers began working on the iPad. In March 2004, the company surveyed a small group of customers, explaining that it was considering the possibility of relaunching the Newton. In reality, Apple was gathering data on the demand for future mobile devices. Around the same time, a year before the first rumors about the iPad surfaced, Apple filed a patent application for the design of an “electronic device” that looked almost identical to the iPad. The document listed Jobs and Apple’s chief designer Jony Ive as the inventors. Ultimately, Apple decided to develop a smartphone with a touch interface, the iPhone, before returning to the concept of the iPad. It remains unclear whether there was any truth to the Quanta rumors about a potential tablet computer. Perhaps Apple was procuring components that it couldn’t assemble in its industrial design lab in Cupertino. Nonetheless, this rumor got many people talking about a possible Apple tablet as early as 2005. It took another five years before Apple introduced the iPad. However, this rumor highlighted a certain excitement about what Apple might achieve with a tablet.
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