It used to be our private joke about how, perhaps, the iPad predates the iPhone. They look similar, the iPad being an oversized version of the iPhone. In fact, they look even more similar if you compare with the rumoured next generation (4G) of the iPhone. It’s as if the original iPhone design was really that big (i.e. 9.56in x 7.47in), then someone higher up in Apple said: “Hey, how do you expect someone to use a phone so big…” And so, the original iPhone was shelved, and Apple engineers had to make a mini iPhone, eventually the first generation iPhone we know today.

Then, what do you know? It turns out to be true. The iPad project did predate the iPhone, according to Steve Jobs.

Our joke went on that, a few years later, the original super-clunky iPhone design was taken out of storage and revived. Minus the phone part. The camera too. The future iPad generations will probably put back the phone and camera.

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