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Title: iPad turns 5: What Apple's tablet has meant to us Post by: HCK on April 04, 2015, 09:00:10 am iPad turns 5: What Apple's tablet has meant to us
<article> <section class="page"> <p> The iPad was rumored long before it was announced—luckily the one about it costing $1,000 (http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703580904574638630584151614) wasn’t true—but even after Steve Jobs walked us through its apps and features (http://www.macworld.com/article/1145938/tabletannouncement1.html), we still didn’t get it, not exactly. People said it was just a big iPod touch (http://www.macworld.com/article/1146025/imaginingipad.html). Those people were wrong.</p><p> Once the first iPad shipped April 3, 2010, it quickly became clear: the iPad is a game-changer. It wasn’t the first tablet, but it was the first one that really mattered to the world, and the rest of the industry has been trying to catch up ever since—for five years and counting.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2905543/ipad-turns-5-what-apples-tablet-has-meant-to-us.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: iPad turns 5: What Apple's tablet has meant to us (http://www.macworld.com/article/2905543/ipad-turns-5-what-apples-tablet-has-meant-to-us.html#tk.rss_all) |