Sorry, I 100% totally disagree with this statement.
The current iPad is exactly the same, in any fundamental meaningful way than the very 1st iPad.
Apple have had almost zero imagination, and lack of change since the very 1st viewing of the device way way way back.
You'd look at them a few feet away on a desk and not be able to see any difference.
The speakers are still in the same dumb position as they were places on day one, sending sound out sideways to the person sitting next to you, not to YOU the user.
No stereo.
They have tweaked it, fiddled with it, but basically it's the same.
I'm so disappointed as if you had of asked me on the day I opened my iPad1, what it would be like in say 5 years time I would have hoped for so much more.
It's the trouble with Apple when they feel there is little competition, they are so lazy and slow
Only reason for the new larger iPhones was because they felt forced into doing it, after saying how wrong such devices were just 12 months earlier.