On the ground, a plastic iPad

patent wars between Apple and SamsungIt seems to be no end in sight. However, there are a positive aspects. For example, during one of the ships, when as a witness at the hearing was called Jonathan Ive (Jonathan Ive), vice president of industrial design department at Apple's, it became known that on the design and concept of the tablet in the company from Cupertino has worked since the early 2000s.

Initially the developers conceived the creation of a tablet computer called Safari Padreports iMore. He allegedly was to be equipped with touch screen technology to support "multitouch". But in the end the design process has become a device iPhoneWhich first saw the light in 2007.

The concept of the Apple tablet has been created in the area of ​​2002-2004. Caught in the Internet pictures iGadzhetov quite meet expectations: the prototype is a rectangular tablet with rounded corners, edges and... plastic housing. Yes, the very first iPad, or, shall we say, his grandfather was plastic and very thick, about 25 mm. For comparison, iPad first generation thickness of 13.4 mm, iPad 2 - 8.8 mm, new iPad - 9,3 mm. Naturally, of glass or aluminum, as in modern devices Apple's, in the early 2000s out of the question. Yet Nemea, distinctive logo - bitten apple - itself a form factor and appearance speak plate us that this is an Apple product, which lies at the heart of the most popular multimedia tablet world.