Watch #apple’s early, ugly iOS prototype in action
When Apple first announced the iPhone, ten years ago this week, it showed off a device with now-familiar app icons and a natural touchscreen interface. But that wasn’t always the plan — internally, Apple had different teams competing on different projects to find the best operating system for its new device. We got our first look at one of these systems last week, a click wheel prototype designed by Tony Fadell and his team, and known as P1. Now we’ve seen another: a very early version of the touchscreen operating system, codenamed P2, that would become iOS.
The video above, recorded by Sonny Dickson, show P1 and P2 running next to each other. P1 — running what Dickson calls “AcornOS” — boots up faster than P2, but it’s the second device…
