In 2007 , Steve Jobsstoodon a stage and denounced the “ smart”phone — ugly , mismatched keyboards of Nokia and RIM . Rightfully ! But he also championed Apple as the mobile keyboard killer . However , IBM beat them almost two X before .
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The Simon , an unassuming collaborationism between Apple antithesis IBM and Bellsouth ( ? ) in 1992 , sported an whole jot - ground interface . No button , no Key , and certainly no keyboard . or else it represent nothing but a slender slab of grayscale display that would adjust to the given program program — calendar , calculator , earphone calls , etc . Sound familiar ?
Granted , the Simon was n’t exactly on the app store grade of mundaneness — it included fax machine functionality , after all — but the canonic idea is there , in 1992 . Get rid of the keyboard ! alas , it was an tremendous Zack Morris machine , as XC sound tended to be , and far too forward of its time . But there ’s something beautiful about a good idea too early , and I ’ll always be a lollipop for XC matte dim reductivism .
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