"But it still wasn't right," reveals our source. "You've probably noticed that touchscreen text entry is, basically, crap. And reaching up to manipulate apps by touching the screen with fingers was still a major issue ergonomics-wise."
Here the design wizards of Cupertino initially intended to take an idea from the ancient world, when documents were inscribed by chiselling script into slabs of stone. An intuitive electronic chisel was devised, activated by rapping its top with a sleekly designed mallet attachment ("think like Wii controller with nunchuk, but Apple style, you know?" says our source. "It was beautiful").
Unfortunately it turned out that certain Chinese firms held rights to the names iChisel and iHammer, so the new interface device was scrapped in an effort to hold down Cupertino's spiralling legal expenses.
