1983 iPhone

[wescobear]

No, really. It's a little known prototype developed in collaboration with AT&T around 1983. For reasons not made public, Apple decided not to go forward with the product. It must be Siri's grandmother.

Comments

[erstexman]

I remember reading about this awhile back. From what I recall, it was decided that the phone would only appeal to a market of Mac owners and at that time it just was not feasible to go forward with development for such a niche. The time and money spent on development for this product also has been listed as one of the factors leading to Jobs getting pushed out at Apple...

[andrewhime]

Mac owners, in 1983?

[erstexman]

Well, Apple users then. I keep forgetting that Mac was not always the name of the computers Apple produced...

[andrewhime]

Encountered a similar thing when I was getting trained to be an iPhone phone monkey.

[redmoonriver]

... ouch.

[erstexman]

Where's the "Like" button??

:-)