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Tablets have been around for well over 20 years before the first ipad.

Yeah yeah yeah. But no tablet existed in the way tablets are used now. We really don't need that discussion here again. Tablets existed true, but they were a niche product based on laptops with unresponsive resistive screens.

The iPhone redefined smartphones, iPad redefined tablet computing.

edit: Sorry, didn't mean to be snarky. You weren't either. Apologies.
 
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