“When the Mac first came out, Newsweek asked me what I [thought] of it. I said: Well, it’s the first personal computer worth criticizing. So at the end of the presentation, Steve came up to me and said: Is the iPhone worth criticizing? And I said: Make the screen five inches by eight inches, and you’ll rule the world.”
Alan Kay predicts some success for Apple’s tablet - admittedly when interviewed by GigaOM last yearpretty much the kind of precog you’d expect from the man who invented the notebook concept, joined Xerox PARC and had a hand in inventing the graphical user interface that Steve Jobs fell in love with during a visit to the facility and, erm, used on the M
