| I think the point Apple is trying to make is a little different than how this article described it. I don't think anybody would disagree that the tablet form shown in the 1994 video is the natural form a functional tablet would take on: thin, large screen, rectangular, etc. Including Apple. However, Apple is not happy because, to Apple, it is the first to figure out how to deliver this "natural" form factor in a tablet, and Samsung (and subsequent Android manufacturers), ripped Apple off in the delivery process. I imagine Apple's logic is that no other companies were able to engineer the "optimal" tablet until the iPad came out and they disassembled it and, through imitation, engineered their own. The Android tablets exist because of the iPad. Which is not unreasonable, honestly. If the thin, rectangular, and large screen form factor is the final product of natural evolution of tablets, how come nothing even came close to it until the iPad came out? How would one explain the the sudden shift in tablet design if the iPad never existed? If I came up with a way of actually making a hover car (envisioned through countless medias) that works and everyone copied the way I did it, I'd be pretty pissed too. I'm not good with words as English is not my first language. I hope I got my point across. EDIT: spelling. |