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Original 1998 iPhone
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When I read the title I opened it expecting to see a shitpost
Same. LOL. Nice catch, that's a rare beast. Never seen one before.
I wonder though... Apple must have bought the name from that company, right? Can you imagine what the world would be like right now if the "original'" iPhone "brand" had continued existing? Nonsense right?
I wonder though... Apple must have bought the name from that company, right? Can you imagine what the world would be like right now if the "original'" iPhone "brand" had continued existing? Nonsense right?
Actually, they're just licensing it! Paying every month. I forget where I read that
I wonder if you can't use a similar method like they're doing with the dreamcast and modem emulation?
http://blog.kazade.co.uk/p/dreampi.html
http://www.dreamcastlive.net/shop.html
http://blog.kazade.co.uk/p/dreampi.html
http://www.dreamcastlive.net/shop.html
Here's an article talking about the history of this product. What really caught my eye about it, however, was the mention of this thing, the first "iPad":
I actually found one of these things in the garbage at one point. (It did survive to be marketed as a Cisco-branded product, but only very briefly.) I ended up giving it to another collector of strange ephemera because it was essentially useless; its OS was essentially a form-based "hypercard" presentation system that slavishly depended on a backend server to process *everything*. Connected via 802.11b networking with no encryption (Or at least if it supported WEP I could never figure out how to enable it) and, yeah, without a server to handle its utterly proprietary communication schemes it was a doorstop. Had a 640x480 color resistive touchscreen, and the seam around it is so it could be tilted up while the keyboard was extended in "laptop mode". (In case it's not clear from the photos in the article the assembly keyboard was essentially the "filling" in a wrap-around tablet sandwich; when you shoved it back in the handle molded on the opposite side would protrude from the top.) It was very reminiscent of the sort of thing Apple would have churned out in the 1995-2000 era; basically what you'd expect if Apple had tried to make an eMate model that had a tablet mode.
I actually found one of these things in the garbage at one point. (It did survive to be marketed as a Cisco-branded product, but only very briefly.) I ended up giving it to another collector of strange ephemera because it was essentially useless; its OS was essentially a form-based "hypercard" presentation system that slavishly depended on a backend server to process *everything*. Connected via 802.11b networking with no encryption (Or at least if it supported WEP I could never figure out how to enable it) and, yeah, without a server to handle its utterly proprietary communication schemes it was a doorstop. Had a 640x480 color resistive touchscreen, and the seam around it is so it could be tilted up while the keyboard was extended in "laptop mode". (In case it's not clear from the photos in the article the assembly keyboard was essentially the "filling" in a wrap-around tablet sandwich; when you shoved it back in the handle molded on the opposite side would protrude from the top.) It was very reminiscent of the sort of thing Apple would have churned out in the 1995-2000 era; basically what you'd expect if Apple had tried to make an eMate model that had a tablet mode.
