Even before Apple set foot in the smartphone industry, rumors of a tablet iDevice ran wild.
Like today, overzealous designers jumped at the chance to imagine Apple’s future iPad. In fact, this recently surfaced mockup dates back to 2004 — it was discovered by The Next Web on an old Mac Rumors forum.
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Fun fact: Mad TV also correctly guessed the iPad name ahead of Apple’s announcement — but got the feature-set all wrong.
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