#frogdesign

I was equally amazed when I read it for the first time but recent reports reveal that the concept for the first ever iPhonewas thought up in the Appleoffices way back in 1983 before anyone even heard of touch sensitive technology.

Hartmut Esslinger, founder of Frogdesignand also the man who helped make the Apple Ilc computer (the first portable PC from the company), came up with a design for a landline phone that carried a regular phone attached to a touchscreen with a stylus.

This design was made available to the public a while ago but it once again became a topic of discussion thanks to the curious minds digging deep in the archives of Stanfordwhich were kept secretive for a very long time. The documents related to Apple were made public after the late Steve Jobs rejoined the company in 1997.

So what is the point of discussing it now you may ask? Well not much. Just knowing that something like this was thought up way back in the past is in itself an amazing thing to talk about and the gadget’s resemblance to the iPad and its only makes it a discussion heavy topic.

Various websites are already reaching out to Stanford to gain more information from these documents but until we get more information, we can might as well continue to be amazed.

I might be an Apple-fanboy myself but it is stuff like this that makes me love them even more. You might like them and you might hate them but you cannot deny the fact they are one incredible company that has undoubtedly changed the course of modern technology. iLife.