There’s an abandoned iPad the size of a TV somewhere at Apple, and Jobs was thrilled

This project was canceled when Apple started crunching the numbers and realized that the TV industry would not be as profitable as hoped. Jobs wanted to shake up the industry, but most people didn’t care much about visual quality and instead opted for the cheapest LCD they could find. Unlike smartphones, TVs aren’t particularly known for being updated every year. However, before the cancellation, Apple had several prototypes made and experimented with. The teams sat huddled at tables and discussed the logistics of supply chains and manufacturing costs. Others got to work on the operating system that this device would have, something that, according to Jobs, should have “the simplest user interface imaginable.” Although the project unfortunately never saw the light of day, it’s hilarious to imagine that somewhere at Apple, perhaps forgotten in some closet, there’s a TV that’s essentially a giant iPad. It certainly sounds like something Jobs would have liked to work on, and perhaps we’ll see something similar one day. However, it will probably cost an arm and a leg and maybe even a kidney.