While rumors surrounding a Multi-Touch Mac Tablet have been circulating for a few years, these rumors became more and more plausible due to the Touch Interface that Apple introduced with the iPhone in 2007. A patent that was discovered Thursday detailed how a full size touch interface would work on a tablet.
The iPhone and iPod Touch have been very stiff competition for all other mobile developers. It seems over the last few months every mobile phone or music device has been compared the iPhone and iPod Touch because of their massive features and abilities.
The New York Times’ John Markoff has stated that the iPhone’s life began as a “Safari Pad”. He states… “Apple’s multitouch technology began life not as a cellphone, but as a notepad-sized skunkworks project internally dubbed Safari Pad, run by Tim Bucher, then Apple’s head of Macintosh hardware. To his credit, Mr. Jobs seized on the technology and morphed it into the iPhone.”
So there have been rumors going around of Apple releasing a new PDA, or more specifically, a new version of the Newton. This rumored PDA would be based on the same design, multi-touch technology, and more or less platform of the iPhone and iPod Touch.
If this happens that would mean that Apple is going to be spreading their precious multi-touch technology around like its their manifest destiny. As such, one is led to speculate what could be next, like maybe a MacBook Touch.
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