Apple Patentmania: 31 Years of Big Ideas

A visual history of Apple patent filings: the brilliant, the bizarre, the just plain bad.

By  |  Monday, December 15, 2008 at 1:19 am

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Computer Enclosure

Filed November 8th, 1995

This looks very much like the proto-iMac from a couple of slides back, but with a handy-dandy phone handset built right in. I don’t think Apple ended up doing anything with this idea, and the world seemed to survive just fine without it.

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