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How Bill Gates Predicted The iPad While Steve Jobs Watched

Jon Edwards
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Cast your mind back to June 2007, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs appeared at D:All Things Digital alongside...
“I don't think you'll have one device. I think you'll have a full-screen device that you can carry around and you'll do dramatically more reading off of that... yeah, I mean, I believe in the tablet form factor [...] You'll have some way of having a hardware keyboard and some settings for that. And then you'll have the device that fits in your pocket, which the whole notion of how much function should you combine in there, you know, there's navigation computers, there's media, there's phone.”
"The PC, this general purpose device, is going to continue to be with us, whether it's a tablet or a notebook or a big curved desktop that you have in your house, or whatever it might be."

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Jon Edwards
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Jon Edwards enjoys The Mighty Boosh, Can, John Lydon and Roller Derby.

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