Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

Apple is famous for its modern, clean design. Not surprisingly, the company creates a lot of concepts, but in fact the units are implemented. Nevertheless, it is interesting to see what could have happened.

Designer Hartmut Esslinger and his firm Frog Design were responsible for most of the designed designs in the 1980s. In connection with this, the book "Ingeniously Simple - The early years of Apple design" was published in which Hartmut Esslinger published images of some prototypes that were not included in the sale. In this article, we will show some of the images of this book to analyze the super-ideas that were paid by Apple over the decades of work.

It turns out these guys were already thinking about concepts that resemble the Ipad, iPhone, and even iWatch thirty years ago.

The Snow White concept was introduced in the '80s. Each individual computer was named after one of the Disney dwarfs.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

This was the one of the dwarfs, Happy. It was a smaller Macintosh in the Snow White line.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

This was Bashful, a 1982 concept for the Macbook.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

These are the early mice and stylus designs that accompanied the Snow White concepts.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

This is a design for a modular Apple Lisa from 1982.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

This is the Apple Lisa on a workbench.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

Believe it or not, Apple had early iPad-like concepts back in 1983. This is a Modular Touch concept that never panned out.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

These are designs for Apple jacks from 1983.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

Before the iPhone, there could have been this clamshell feature phone.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

This is a precursor to the upcoming iWatch alongside some really cool headphones.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

Here's another early design for an Apple phone.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

An early design for the MacBook from 1984.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

This is the 1984 concept for the "New York" MacBook which featured a modular design and flatscreen.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

This is another iPad predecessor with an integrated touch screen.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

This early tablet design and stylus was created in 1982.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market

This was a design for the BabyMac from 1985.

Prototypes of Apple technology that never hit the market