Comments on: If Apple Made iOS In 1986 This Is What It Would Look Like

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 06:13:36 +0000

I still have my mint(kinda) working Apple Newton in a box around here somewhere.. it’ll be worth something one day…

By: Kirt

Kirt — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 14:53:30 +0000

Forgot about Hypercard! That brings back some memories.

By: Dave Strange

Dave Strange — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:53:27 +0000

Would certainly improve battery life.

By: Corey Peed His Pantz

Corey Peed His Pantz — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:36:37 +0000

Change 3G to AMPS, TACS or NMT, and make the phone 2 inches thick and weigh 8#, and then we’re really getting somewhere.

By: Corey Edwards

Corey Edwards — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 23:23:52 +0000

“If Apple Made iOS In 1986…” well they didn’t, can we move on now?

By: lolman

lolman — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:13:50 +0000

so how about now? i cant see grayscale lion or ios6. -.-’

By: Reuben

Reuben — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:18:04 +0000

But it still wouldn’t have had C&P until 3 years after every other phone had it.

By: _DioM_

_DioM_ — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 04:40:02 +0000

*Is an avid ‘crafter who hates it when people call the game ‘Mindcraft’*

By: John

John — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:29:54 +0000

And I was whining about Iphone, my bad.

By: John

John — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:29:13 +0000

Needs Donky Kong….. seriously its that retro I am flashing back to dual screen handheld Donky Kong.

Man that was fun….and hell what version did we have to wait for to get copy and paste. Sigh

By: jack

jack — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:42:30 +0000

that is not at al what it would of lookeed like! to modern… make it like some type of wood or plastic!

By: Mark W

Mark W — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:23:30 +0000

You need to go back to the top and read it again because they did mention
“The Ultimate Retro iPhone Case Turns Your iPhone Into an 80′s Block Cellphone”
For the ultimate look and feel. ( just too bad it doesn’t have an extra battery compartment in their.)

As far as touchscreens in the 80s, go to Wikipedia and look it up or if you don’t trust them, go get yourself a book.

I’ll save you the trouble of looking it up.
“Bent Stumpe with the aid of Frank Beck, both engineers from CERN, developed a transparent touch screen in the early 1970s and it was manufactured by CERN and put to use in 1973.”

“In 1986 the first graphical point of sale software was demonstrated on the 16-bit Atari 520ST color computer. It featured a color touchscreen widget-driven interface. and was the first commercially available POS system with a widget-driven color graphic touch screen interface.”

Don’t make blind statements without proof.
Granted Wikipedia isn’t always accurate, but the information can’t be far off.

and the Apple Newton message pad, was 1st available in 1993.
That means that Apple had to be working on this for at least 5–10 years before release, waiting for the cost of technology to come down in price, size And power consumption.

By: klonengan gan

klonengan gan — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:22:32 +0000

In first left image, the phone carrier id is IND XL.
Is it means XL Axiata?

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:41:53 +0000

This is not how it would have looked, think sinclair spectrum, teletext or ceefax the alphabet was almost unrecognisable never mind graphics. As for touch, try hitting the return key several times then unplug wait and try again. Wait for the analogue sound then you can start, but I don’t see a slot for 2 pence pieces so that you can make a phone call. Nice try but not authentic enough try Tetris for your symbols then you will be nearer too the mark. I wonder if the person who came up with this was born in the 80′s ? or after.

By: usain

usain — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 04:25:07 +0000

Wow that is awesome, too bad it’s $1 for a calculator that’s otherwise free