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>Playboy: And in the meantime?

>Jobs: The developments will be in making the products more and more portable... maybe the merging of the telephone and the personal computer.

Hard to believe this was 1984, it almost sounded like the original iPhone was 20+ years in baking

Well the first smartphone was prototyped around 1992 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Simon

Depends on how much one read into the whole "merging" thing.

Hindsight is 20/20 as they say...

Especially since not “telephone” and “computer” implied non-portability at the time. A pretty prescient statement even so.