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By: Four Apple prototypes I’ve never heard of | Ars Technica

Four Apple prototypes I’ve never heard of | Ars Technica — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:40:13 +0000

[...] Deep Dish—none of them did me any good today. The Apple Gazette has an article up entitled: Apple Prototypes: 5 Products We Never Saw and I am rather hesitant to say that I have only heard of one of them before. Alas, the Apple [...]

By: Chris Baker

Chris Baker — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:24:54 +0000

Cool to see the Paladin. I worked on that product at a sub-contractor doing the phone, fax, voice mail, and modem functionality. A buddy of mine still has a Paladin that works even to this day. Every couple of years he pulls it out and we boot it up to see if it still works.

As far as I know, the product was about ready to go into production with full tooling (word was they spent 36-40 million) done and ready to go in Taiwan. CEO Gill A. killed it and a lot of other projects when he took over. It took so long to get the product designed and tooling done that many of the parts were going out of life cycle as production neared. I recall that it was being developed the near the 680X0 to PowerPC chip transition leaving the Paladin on the wrong side of the divide.

I remember hearing rumors that about 30 of them were made on production tooling and many of them were destroyed after the project was killed.

I still think Apple could be one of the greatest consumer product companies in the world. Apple coffee maker anyone? (Hey..don’t laugh…Porsche has a design studio.)

By: CG » Apple Prototypes: 5 Products We Never Saw

CG » Apple Prototypes: 5 Products We Never Saw — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 07:39:08 +0000

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By: Joanne

Joanne — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:34:36 +0000

Wonderful to see my picture of W.A.L.T. here. Yes, that is my picture, taken on my leather ottoman. I sold it on eBay a few years back. To my knowledge it is the only one of its kind left. Every picture I see on the Internet is a pic I took. I thought one of the first comments was funny because the poster was wondering how many of these wonderful ‘gems’ have been accidentally thrown out… and yes, I did almost throw it away. I decided to see what would happen to it on eBay and got over 1 million hits in 4 days. Global tracking showed an IP from every country except the Vatican hit it. It funded the rest of my medical education, plus for a few years it was a really cool phone… until it died! My favorite memory of WALT is in the instruction booklet where it said… “Do not drop W.A.L.T.” No kidding! I swear I did not drop it…it just wore out and died of natural causes… Joanne

By: Doodee

Doodee — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:06:14 +0000

Thanks for sharing

By: Cinco prototipos de Apple que nunca vieron la luz | Teleobjetivo

Cinco prototipos de Apple que nunca vieron la luz | Teleobjetivo — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:58:22 +0000

[...] nuevos productos, pero de todos los que conciben, solo unos pocos consiguen llegar al mercado. En este artÃculo podemos ver cinco de esos prototipos que no llegaron a verse en la [...]

By: kenavik

kenavik — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:00:09 +0000

Estamos totalmente manipulados. Podemos saber que hay productos de appel que no han salido a la luz.Increible .. y cuantas cosas han creado otras empresas o personas y no sabemos nada por intereses economicos.

kenavik

By: habtm :interests » Blog Archive » habtm#6

habtm :interests » Blog Archive » habtm#6 — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:33:40 +0000

[...] iPhone Rumors Part I OSX mobile? Apple Prototypen The Apple Museum Partnerschaft TiVo-Apple [...]

By: ConheÃ§a cinco raros protÃ³tipos Apple que o mundo nunca conheceu at Fatalnet

ConheÃ§a cinco raros protÃ³tipos Apple que o mundo nunca conheceu at Fatalnet — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:44:49 +0000

[...] “Algumas vezes essas gemas raras surgem na web para darmos uma olhada e poderar sobre o que pode ter acontecido”, diz Michael, autor da compilaÃ§Ã£o com Ãtens “que sÃ³ o mais fanÃ¡tico dos fanÃ¡ticos poderia encontrar”, no Apple Gazette. [...]

By: Apple Prototypes: 5 Products We Never Saw :: Newstack

Apple Prototypes: 5 Products We Never Saw :: Newstack — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:51:06 +0000

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By: TechCast Network · Apple TechCast 09 - Xmas Ready

TechCast Network · Apple TechCast 09 - Xmas Ready — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 15:36:38 +0000

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By: B&Massa

B&Massa — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:12:31 +0000

what’s so awful about w.a.l.t as a name? At least compared to Mac Book Pro, anyway (what the hell was wrong with the iBook brand?!)

By: dc

dc — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:46:55 +0000

PowerBop was NOT a French standard or a cellular standard. The BiBop system was a 900 MHz digital cordless system called CT2 (search the web) for which Dassault, Motorola, Shaye Communications, GPT and Ferranti made equipment. There was also a very small amount of equipment from some Asian manufacturers – anyone remember that.

CT2 was an ETSI standard, predating the now ubiquitous DECT.

There were similar systems in the UK, (Rabbit, Zonephone, etc), in Holland (Greenpoint I think) and Deutsche Telecome almost launched a service called Birdie. But the cellular operators just launched consumer tariffs, and all the services died. Remember that this was all pre-GSM consumer tariffs and pre-paid.

I was heavily involved in the stuff behind these services, DECT was much better.

By: 5 Apple toodet mis ei jÃµudnud lettidele at Kristjan in Tallinn

5 Apple toodet mis ei jÃµudnud lettidele at Kristjan in Tallinn — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:22:51 +0000

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By: Apple’i leiutet prototÃ¼Ã¼bid « vahvelblog.wordpress.com

Apple’i leiutet prototÃ¼Ã¼bid « vahvelblog.wordpress.com — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:55:27 +0000

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By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:17:43 +0000

I also agree that comments in multiple languages are beneficial. Personally, i speak 3 languages, and so can read many of the comments in Languages Other Than English. Please let other people post their opinions as well, some may view it as discrimination…or simply ignorance

By: The Missing Apple Prototypes « mattroberts.com

The Missing Apple Prototypes « mattroberts.com — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:06:02 +0000

[...] But the 5 prototypes I’ve never heard of are pretty cool. (I’m glad they didn’t sink Apple into deeper misery after so many failures in the 90’s.) Apple lore can be just as interesting as apple fact but these are all genuine product attempts on apples part. You can see just how much innovation apple throws at technology. [...]

By: jeff sepeta

jeff sepeta — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:12:42 +0000

i applaud the acceptance of comments in languages other than english. if i care to dig deeper, i can go to google or babelfish to get a translation. and they can read my english too if they wish.

By: Hit by a rock

Hit by a rock — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:29:47 +0000

So, what would happen if Apple released a game console today, disregarding the failure in 1997? $600 consoles seem to be the norm today, like it was with the Pippin.

By: 5 Prototypen weisen in die Zukunft? « Weckewerck

5 Prototypen weisen in die Zukunft? « Weckewerck — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:48:22 +0000

[...] Alles zusammen vielleicht ein Hinweis auf kommende Produkte? Eines ist klar, Apple bringt mehr als ein Handy. (Bild- und Textquelle) Explore posts in the same categories: Apple [...]

By: Xrules

Xrules — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:19:13 +0000

I wonder what ideas Apple has in their collective trash cans right now…

By: Gregory Kerwin

Gregory Kerwin — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:53:17 +0000

There are always going to be clumpers vs. splitters. Sculley was a clumper: he wanted many functions clumped in one box. Jobs is a splitter: the iPod does one thing real well – play back music. iPods now play teeny-tiny videos, a potential slide into clumping. Phones are good for phoning. Clumping a phone and a PDA with an iPod seems like a Sculley move, not a Jobsian trait. Perhaps miniaturization is making clumping OK for Apple. I could envision an iPhone that works only with a Bluetooth headset, and wouldn’t have a mic or earphone in the iPod. That way Apple wouldn’t have to change the form factor of the iPod, no one would have to hold an iPod up to their ear, and Apple could still clump the phone function with the music playback function.

By: Inspirational Technology » Blog Archive » 5 Apple Prototypes that never came to market

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:04:20 +0000

[...] This is a pretty interesting collection of 5 Apple Prototype products that never made it to market. What’s really intersting about it, is two of the products, the phone and the tablet Mac, are still active rumors to this day. The latest rumors now seem to expect both to show up sometime in 2007. I suspect that may be true for the phone, but I’m not so sure about a tablet Mac. I’d love to see one, but Microsoft’s Tablet PC has hardly taken the world by storm. I actually own one of the stupid things and bolting tablet functions to a desktop OS is just clunky. I haven’t touched the thing in over a year. Of course if it ran an OS truly designed for the tablet experience, with software also truly designed for the tablet experience I might find it more useful. Apple does have an OS designed for that usage, of course, it needs a fair bit of modernization. [...]

By: ILOVEM$

ILOVEM$ — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:43:46 +0000

Wow seeing this stuff makes me want to buy a Windows laptop!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:28:37 +0000

Non-English doesn’t bother me. If I can’t read it, I just skip over it. Same can be said for some of the English posts.

I’m sure the non-English posts are benificial to the readers of that language – why deprive?