Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Apple’s Designs from the 80s That Never Saw the Light



1. The 1982 concept for flat screen workstation.

Apple's Snow White 2 - Flat Screen Workstation (1982)
Image Source: fastcodesign, arnoldsche

2. The '82 and '83 concepts of Bashful, the code name for tablet design concept shown below. Bashful also has a stylus that could be used on the screen. 

Apple's Bashful Modular Mac (1982)
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3. The tablet could be used on its own, with a keyboard or perched on a frame that could also hold a floppy drive. Apple, apparently, had been working on the idea of tablets long before it launched Newton in 1987 and the PDAs in 1993. 

Apple's Snow White Tablet Mac (1982)
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Apple's Snow White Tablet Mac (1982)
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4. A phone with touch sensitive screen that you could write on.

Apple's Snow White Concept - The Macphone (1984)
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5. The Snow White designs included minimal surface texture, no sharp angles and rounded corners, completely white in color or sometimes soft olive gray as contrast, and with a solitary logo of the company.

Apple's Prototypes
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6. The concept for wireless flip-phone.

Apple's Flip Phone
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Apple's Prototype Phone
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7. Here are some more design prototypes from Apple.

Apple's Prototype iWatch
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Apple's Touch-Screen MacBook (1984)
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8. The 1982 Snow White concept of Jonathan Mac

Apple's Snow White Jonathan Mac (1982)
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Apple's Prototypes
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Apple's Prototypes
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Apple's Prototypes
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9. The 1982 Snow White concept for Macbook

Apple's Prototypes
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Apple's Prototypes


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