Archive for November 2006

Apple Prototypes: 5 Products We Never Saw

Apple was the first to introduce digital camera (Quicktake) and PDA (Newton) to a mass audience long time before then became product of mass consumption which is why they commercially failed(can we call it The Tucker syndrome? or maybe the NeXT syndrome for the geekier of you). These products are probably the tip of an iceberg, the hidden part being all of the prototypes that they didn’t put into production like the ones described in this article by Apple Gazette (also read the comments for more):

Apple Prototypes: 5 Products We Never Saw by Apple Gazette

One can wonder what else they are concocting in their labs now given the evolution of Apple R&D budget:

Apple R&D budget

Minority Report becomes real

Ars Technica has published this interesting article:

London pilots “future crime” database

History of OS GUI and UNIX

Just found this story on Digg relating various steps of the evolution of graphic user interface on personal computers.
It reminded me another time line I came across years ago, which is the history of UNIX from 1969 to nowadays.

read more | digg story