"This early prototype has a number of ports that we're used to seeing more commonly on computers than on mobile devices, including USB ports, an Ethernet port, and even a serial port. Apple never intended for all of these to make it into the final product, of course - our source said that because this was a development prototype, ports like Ethernet and serial were included simply to make working on the device easier." Fascinatingly awesome.
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At this stage there was probably not much to see. Most likely some diagnostic stuff to test the touch screen.
Still certainly at later stages they probably had a number of GUIs before settling on what they did.
At first there was no app store, which made the screen layout look a bit odd. You had these small icons, but there was plenty of space. Why not make the icons bigger then? Why go for icons anyway?
Maybe Apple already anticipated that in the future more icons would feature on the iPhone screen, but I wonder if they weren't already planning for 3rd party apps from day one.
If only we had 100% insight in to the thoughts and prototypes of companied not only like Apple, but also IBM where I'm sure they have even more juicy stuff stored in boxes in a dark cellar.
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It would be even more interesting to see software running on it, some kind of GUI and get a sense in what direction Apple was thinking until it ended up with what we got.