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Very dull comment for anyone who has been on an internet forum during the past 20 years. Every group has similar members who feel the need to make other people feel bad for enjoying something.
Maybe it's old hat for phone devs. But the fact is this is the _iPhone_ prototype - a major inflection point in not just mobile phone history, but in world history. So even if its physical form is nothing special, its significance is.
Seeing what looks like a full iPhone attached to it (I know it's just the screen, but the inclusion of a taped-over home button is interesting) gives me kind of a "Thinking quickly, Dave constructed an iPhone using a circuit board, some tape, and an iPhone" vibe.
I was also curious about that. In other stories I've read, I've heard it referred to as a big ugly box with a touch screen embedded on top of it, which is what I imagined most people worked on. But this just looks like a normal iPhone with a large breadboard connected.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/exclusive-super-earl...
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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...
https://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/tablet-...
One of the members of the winning team was Stephen Wolfram.
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Apple has an extreme focus on secrecy. Apple probably considers this board their property.
It is their property. They paid for it, and it was never sold or otherwise transferred.
I'm ex-Apple, BTW.
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That's likely a ex post facto hack, as a production iPhone's front piece was likely attached to make this prototyping board more complete. The engineers back then certainly wouldn't have seen the iPhone-shaped screen assembly, they would either use the video out to a regular monitor (sufficient for most hardware testing and kernel development) while the developers responsible for making the touch screen work might ha…
These dev boards were modular, so that engineers without a need-to-know for e.g. the screen or radio didn’t get one. But this is not a retrofit; if you needed a display or touch then this is what you got. The video out ports were only used for the 30-pin video out, the main display never ran on them (could not run on them). iPhoneOS kernel developers could hardly care less about the display; everything was done with…
Of course people working on developing the UX would want to see and touch a contextualised screen so I suppose the configuration we see here would make sense for them.
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These dev boards were modular, so that engineers without a need-to-know for e.g. the screen or radio didn’t get one. But this is not a retrofit; if you needed a display or touch then this is what you got. The video out ports were only used for the 30-pin video out, the main display never ran on them (could not run on them). iPhoneOS kernel developers could hardly care less about the display; everything was done with…
I'm not saying you're wrong—I'm just some random person on the internet. But I find it surprising that they'd even have that many pieces of iPhone shaped glass attached to working touchscreens early on in the process. Of course people working on developing the UX would want to see and touch a contextualised screen so I suppose the configuration we see here would make sense for them.
Likewise the UX development started years before, some of the earliest hardware was just a handheld display & touch tethered to an old G3 PowerPC Mac (to get the performance constraints about right). The purpose here was to get representative displays into the hands of relatively large numbers of engineers.
Is the checkerboard pattern on the top layer for aesthetics, or is it functional for EMI reduction.
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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.
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Maybe it's old hat for phone devs. But the fact is this is the _iPhone_ prototype - a major inflection point in not just mobile phone history, but in world history. So even if its physical form is nothing special, its significance is.
World history? Give me a break.
question 2. Do AI-era smartphones represent a major augmentation of the capabilities of average human beings?
When answering question 2, step out of any jaded First World bubble you might find yourself in and consider people in all parts of the world.