Tony Fadell talks about the prototype MacBook with a touch screen in the “pre-iPhone” times and Moto Rokr

Many have heard of Tony Fadell as the founder of Nest, which was eventually purchased by the company

Google. He left his post at Nest last yearafter the company's products did not bring much profit to the market. In an interview with Wired, Fadell talks about hisExperience with Apple before co-creating Nest. He also shared interesting data on products that were developed during his tenure at giant Cupertino.

Fadell talks in detail about the project oncreating a MacBook with a touch screen. This idea, apparently, was considered, even under Steve Jobs in the last years of his work at Apple. Most likely, the company was not too happy with what Microsoft did with its tablets (long before Surface), and wanted to make its product much better.

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However, the company was not sure thatsensor technical capabilities could be applied to large displays on a large scale. Another problem was the creation of touch-compatible MacBook applications. Taking into account these factors, the company temporarily postponed the project.

Today we're seeing renewed interest from the company in touch-enabled MacBook computers following the launch ofMacBook Pro with Touch Barlast year. Although the company is still a long way from actually creating a touchscreen MacBook, it is moving in the right direction.

Fadell also talked about Apple collaborating with Motorola to create the Moto Rokr. When asked if Apple intentionally sabotaged the Moto Rokr, Fadell simply said:

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“We tried our best. Motorola did not do enough. Their software development team was not good enough. Their operating system was not good enough. And this experience was not very successful. All the problems simply merged, but we did not have a goal to create a bad product. "

He further mentioned that the company had nospecies on the iPhone when Rokr was developed, thereby relieving Apple of any responsibility in this matter. Apple apparently just probed the soil with the Rokr.

You can read the full interview atWired.