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Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad
Doofus writes "The Washington Post has a profile of Roger Fidler, who 'invented' the tablet computer in the 1990s, while working as a visionary for newspaper firm Knight-Ridder. He is now embroiled in the Apple/Samsung legal war, as an expert witness. Fidler admits that other prior art influenced him, such as the tablets being used as computing devices in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Prior prior art."
They also invented talking cars.
Of course he has. It's UPS, they drop things out of moving trucks all the time.
Etch a Sketch. 1950s. That was prior art on many levels. Not that you could write PRIOR ART on it. It would be more like RBIQB_ABT.
The Sumerians and Assyrians were 'computing' on the cPad (clay tablets), long before any of this.
Silence is a state of mime.
Apple invented rounded corners!
Apple OWNS rounded corners!
No one else can make a tablet with rounded corners!
Steve is a (rounded corner) genius!
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?