Jobs: the iPad begat the iPhone, not the other way around.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs appeared on stage at All Things D’s D8 conference Tuesday night, less than a week before his scheduled keynote at WWDC. During his frank talk with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, Jobs revealed a number of juicy tidbits about how Apple is run, the company’s relationship with Google, the leaked iPhone prototype, and (of course) the iPad. He did not, however, let anything slip about upcoming announcements—that is reserved for next week.
One of the most interesting tidbits from the talk was Jobs’ acknowledgment that the idea for the iPad came before the iPhone, even though it was the phone that managed to make it to market first. “I’ll tell you a secret. It actually started with the tablet first,” Jobs said. “I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display you could type on with your fingers. I asked our folks: could we come up with a multitouch display that we could type on? And six months later, they came back with this prototype display. And I gave it to one of our really brilliant UI guys and he called me back a few weeks later and had inertial scrolling working and I thought, ‘my God, we can build a phone with this!’ So we put the tablet on the shelf… and we went to work on the iPhone.”
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