Does it connect to my airpods though? :)
The new AirPods supposedly require "an iCloud account and macOS 10.14.4, iOS 12.2, or watchOS 5.2", so it doesn't look like it :P
Perhaps ironically the board seems to have 2 aux ports :P
A look at an original iPhone prototype
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Re: A look at an original iPhone prototype
#32Why the anonymous source? 10 year old secrets in a rapid-development technology seem like non-secrets, so who's willing to "leak" but not be identifiable at this point? Maybe Apple has strict secrecy rules that are only partially enforced? I don't quite get it.
Apple has an extreme focus on secrecy.
Apple probably considers this board their property.
Re: A look at an original iPhone prototype
#33If anything a big board like this is one way to ensure it's not easy to steal. The on-board (pun intended) documentation - "Do not connect battery without removing J49", etc - is pretty neat too. Is this something that's fairly standard in the industry?
It's pretty common. If you have the time and space on a board, it's a good idea to fill the silkscreen with useful or important information.
I love when the info makes it to the shipped version. My bass amp has a miniature schematic drawing etched into itself, it's been incredibly useful. Here's my favorite PCB etching though: http://i.imgur.com/28cYobo.jpg
Re: A look at an original iPhone prototype
#34Why the anonymous source? 10 year old secrets in a rapid-development technology seem like non-secrets, so who's willing to "leak" but not be identifiable at this point? Maybe Apple has strict secrecy rules that are only partially enforced? I don't quite get it.
If that person is still connected to Apple they may not want to sabotage the relationship.
Re: A look at an original iPhone prototype
#35Very dull content for anyone who has worked on anything related to mobile phone HW during the past 20 years. Every manufacturer has similar prototype boards and there is nothing special in this iPhone prototype.
Poor Verge, missing out on that infinitesimally small market of people who work on prototype phone hardware. They must be kicking themselves.
Re: A look at an original iPhone prototype
#36Is it me or does it look like the top layer has reaaaaally thick copper? Look at how it differs between areas with those squares contra area without. Looks like it's very very thick. Perhaps the solder mask.
Nothing out of the ordinary for prototypes. Much easier to solder fixes to without accidentally stripping a trace and better RF properties, which will help with an oversized board like this one.
Re: A look at an original iPhone prototype
#37Why the anonymous source? 10 year old secrets in a rapid-development technology seem like non-secrets, so who's willing to "leak" but not be identifiable at this point? Maybe Apple has strict secrecy rules that are only partially enforced? I don't quite get it.
Apple had police raid a Gizmodo editor's home searching for a lost iPhone prototype they had obtained -
https://www.pcworld.com/article/195053/gizmodo_iphone_police...
Same company that once optimized negative publicity just by making an official guideline warning iOS developers not to talk to the press...
"If you run to the press and trash us, it never helps."
Re: A look at an original iPhone prototype
#38Does it connect to my airpods though? :)
The new AirPods supposedly require "an iCloud account and macOS 10.14.4, iOS 12.2, or watchOS 5.2", so it doesn't look like it :P
What a nonsense. As if earbuds would require the cloud to function somehow. This 'I'm forcing my cloud down your throat' stuff has to stop.
Re: A look at an original iPhone prototype
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always imagined that the iPad came about because some engineer had a Retina iPhone prototype on a standard 72dpi screen and figured it might work to replace a laptop. Take the old eMac software, and bam, iPad. (100% speculation)
The iPad was actually conceptualized before the desktop workstation was common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
The iPad was conceptualized as a thin touch screen no-keyboard slate since at least 1992 in Star Trek TNG [0]
[0] https://i1.wp.com/www.techdigest.tv/star-trek-tablet.jpg?res...
Re: A look at an original iPhone prototype
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
The iPad was actually conceptualized before the desktop workstation was common: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
The iPad was conceptualized as a thin touch screen no-keyboard slate since at least 1992 in Star Trek TNG [0] [0] https://i1.wp.com/www.techdigest.tv/star-trek-tablet.jpg?res...
DynaBook was long, long before STtNG.