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> battery, circuits, screen and keys

The iPad doesn't use keys though.



The ipad doesnt, but it looked to me like Alan's drawing did. Thats why linked to the image of the 1979 spell-and-speak. Not quite the same, though with cheaper memory it easily could have been; all of the other tech was there, and plenty of real examples predate it.

All of things that made the ipad unique were incremental improvements. That is why i took issue with the assertion that Alan invented / predicted the iPad... So many other examples of tech resembling his drawing far earlier in time.




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