Before the iPhone was developed, Apple designers presented Steve Jobs with an idea, a display that would have a multitouch interface. Jon Ive presented him with a prototype that would change history forever. Seen below are classified documents of a deposition and some images of an early product protoype. Jobs saw it and thought "We could make this into a phone!" They paused developing what would soon be the iPad and immediately got to work on the iPhone. The rest is history...

Early iPad Prototype Unveiled

































Kind of looks like a Macbook right?
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