Apple Improves on Another Sony Project
[Apple, iPhone]
Is this another case of Apple taking something left to languish by Sony and improving it or is this an application of Robert Heinlein's comment, "You can't railroad until it's time to railroad"?
What you are looking at is the Sony Pic-2000 from 1996(?) running Magic Cap 1.5 – note the line of icons down at the bottom & the dial pad. Look familiar?
To be fair, the original project started in 1990 within Apple, when Marc Porat convinced Apple's CEO John Sculley that the next generation of computing would require a partnership of computer, communications and consumer electronics companies to cooperate. Known as the Paradigm project, the project ran for some time within Apple, but management remained generally uninterested and the team struggled for resources. Eventually they approached Sculley with the idea of spinning off the group as a separate company, which occurred in May 1990.
Is this another case of Apple taking something left to languish by Sony and improving it or is this an application of Robert Heinlein's comment, "You can't railroad until it's time to railroad"?What you are looking at is the Sony Pic-2000 from 1996(?) running Magic Cap 1.5 – note the line of icons down at the bottom & the dial pad. Look familiar?
To be fair, the original project started in 1990 within Apple, when Marc Porat convinced Apple's CEO John Sculley that the next generation of computing would require a partnership of computer, communications and consumer electronics companies to cooperate. Known as the Paradigm project, the project ran for some time within Apple, but management remained generally uninterested and the team struggled for resources. Eventually they approached Sculley with the idea of spinning off the group as a separate company, which occurred in May 1990.
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