Before Apple officially announced the iPhone in 2007, the company had multiple prototypes in the works, of course before it ended up on the phone we all know. Some prototypes, then, had a very special design and this can be seen now, since in the spotlight came an image showing a special iPhone designed by Apple.
THE Tony Fadell was responsible for the development of the iPod at Apple in the ’00s and recently released a new book, in which he shared some details about the time he worked at Apple and other technology companies.
According to Fadell, in this protoype users could quickly change the bottom of the iPod to use it as a phone, while it also had a built-in camera and its colors were similar to the official ones chosen for the first iPhone. It also had the classic iPod “click wheel”.
The interesting thing is that Steve Jobs was the one who strongly encouraged the team to create an “iPod phone”, instead of a completely new device. This of course did not happen, as the design of the iPod had changed a lot with the so-called “click wheel”, with Jobs believing that Apple’s first smartphone should have it.
Although the former vice president of iPods thought that the click wheel would be a good idea, he eventually agreed that the company’s first smartphone would be good not to come with the click wheel. This led Apple engineers and designers to rethink the project, this time with a large touch screen, almost no physical buttons, and a Mac OS X-based operating system.
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