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Apple Innovation Lives On

Wow! Hard to believe, but apparently some Apple projects can remain so obscure they barely reach the rumor stage. Evidence is offered at Apple Gazette, which profiles five potential Apple products you likely never heard of, and for good reason. PowerBop was the company’s first stab at wireless Internet access, but GMS links were too […]

Wow! Hard to believe, but apparently some Apple projects can remain so obscure they barely reach the rumor stage.Proto04

Evidence is offered at Apple Gazette, which profiles five potential Apple products you likely never heard of, and for good reason.

  • PowerBop was the company’s first stab at wireless Internet access, but GMS
    links were too spotty to make it anything but a constant source of frustration.
  • Current iPhone expectations pale in comparison to the videophone thing (A
    phone with an optical media drive?!?) John Sculley pulled out of his woohoo in the mid-‘90s.
  • The PenLite, an early attempt at tablet computing, turned out to be an ungodly mutant hybrid of a low-wattage Powerbook and a Newton.

Apple Gazette