<story><title>Apple’s First Phone, from 1983, Never Made It to Market (2014)</title><url>http://lowendmac.com/2014/apples-first-phone-from-1983-never-made-it-to-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>smpetrey</author><text>This was not before the Macintosh as the author points out.&lt;p&gt;Hartmut Esslinger prototyped the &amp;quot;MacPhone&amp;quot; in a study in 1984 after the success of the Macintosh. [1] Other prototypes in this series were part of the Snow White project. [2]&lt;p&gt;Information sourced from &amp;quot;Keep It Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple&amp;quot; by Hartmut Esslinger. [3]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;MMYDogd&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;MMYDogd&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Snow_White_design_language&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Snow_White_design_language&lt;/a&gt;
[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Keep-Simple-Early-Design-Years&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;3897904071&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Keep-Simple-Early-Design-Years&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;389...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple’s First Phone, from 1983, Never Made It to Market (2014)</title><url>http://lowendmac.com/2014/apples-first-phone-from-1983-never-made-it-to-market/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>underwater</author><text>Is this legitimate? All references to the phone lead back to the same website.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m surprised that the technology existed to do touch-based signatures. That would have required precise touch input and a decent amount of computing power in a tiny form factor.&lt;p&gt;The screen is surprisingly large, slim and doesn&amp;#x27;t have the LCD look most laptops had at the time. It also is glossy, which really only became popular when Apple had its resurgence.</text></comment>