iPad: Who's idea was it?

This from iCon, the totally unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs written in 2006, about Steve’s leadership of the original Macintosh team:

“we all had a joke about Steve. If you wanted to get him to agree to a new idea, something that was a good idea but that he hadn’t thought of, you told him the idea, and then just let him reject it. A couple of weeks later he would come rushing over to you and tell you how he had just had a great idea and would proceed to tell you the same idea you had told him before.” As far as Steve was concerned, it was not his idea, so he had no problem with it being incorporated into the design.

Then take this:

1998: A revolutionary, lovable Apple PDA with little squareish icons, on-screen keyboard, common icons across the bottom, single-tasking, and the best compact keyboard of the decade, complete with an ungainly but functional fold-out case. The Newton.

2010: A revolutionary, lovable Apple PDA with little squareish icons, on-screen keyboard, common icons across the bottom, single-tasking, and the best compact keyboard of the decade, complete with an ungainly but functional fold-out case. The iPad.

And the fact that the Newton, created by John Sculley, was steved when Jobs took over as interim Apple CEO in 1997…

…and it makes you wonder where the iPad came from ;)