{"id":4766,"date":"2013-04-25T18:54:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4766"},"modified":"2013-04-25T18:54:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T18:54:08","slug":"apple-their-tablet-computer-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4766","title":{"rendered":"Apple: Their Tablet Computer History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wundrbooks.com\/\">Wunder<\/a> web site I came across this interesting history of Apple tablet designs, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wundrbooks.com\/apple-their-tablet-computer-history.html\">Apple: Their Tablet Computer History<\/a>. We forget that the iPad is their second foray into tablet computing. The first was the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newton_%28platform%29\">Newton MessagePad<\/a>, of which I had two. As much as I wanted to like the Newton, it was really too big (for a pocket) and didn&#8217;t do anything important to make lugging it around worth while. When the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palm_pilot\">PalmPilot<\/a> came out I switched because it could do the useful things of the Newton (calendar, address book) while fitting in a pocket.<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting about the Apple tablet history is how many designs they went through of which only a few surfaced into products.<\/p>\n<p>Wundr has an Epub authoring tool, Playwrite for publishing attractive works to tablets. Unlike Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ca\/ibooks-author\/\">iBooks Author<\/a>, Playwrite authors to an open standard, which is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at the Wunder web site I came across this interesting history of Apple tablet designs, Apple: Their Tablet Computer History. We forget that the iPad is their second foray into tablet computing. The first was the Newton MessagePad, of which I had two. As much as I wanted to like the Newton, it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple: Their Tablet Computer History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-mobile-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4767,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4766\/revisions\/4767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}