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Seven Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPad
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I have a Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1(P7500)from 2011 and it's still working fine. it was a direct competitor to this iPad
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Can't be(working fine), it's slow like molasses.
The ipad got left behind by the Surface and Surface Pro rather quickly.
I still have ipad 3 which was the redheaded stepchild of ipad line and havent turned it on in over a year.
I still have ipad 3 which was the redheaded stepchild of ipad line and havent turned it on in over a year.
If you take annual snapshots of Apple's product lineup, I feel like it looks significantly different every year, up until you hit 2011. Then it's like... oh, look, the exact same freaking lineup. The only new product is the Apple Watch.
I attended that day. It was a well done Keynote. People were excited.
Feel bad for Steve. The iPad of today is not what he ambitioned back then... Steve wanted the iPad to be a computer replacement, instead it became a giant iPod toy to play silly mobile games and watch youtube videos
There are many people that check Facebook, email, and watch YouTube Videos....
Not everyone needs a truck that does everything.
Well practically speaking, it is.
iOS is better optimized these days for the large screen, but there would be no practical difference between a 10" iPad versus if Apple made a 10" iPhone other than the phone part.
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Apple created an pretty impossible record to follow, even for themselves. How many other companies can you say have created entirely new industries with their products, not once, but at least 4+ times in their lifetime?
Expecting anyone, even Apple, to continue creating these type of products every couple years is simply impossible. We'll likely see these jumps with VR and self-driving cars, but few others are doing what Apple has and none of them are doing it as frequently as they have in the past couple years.
"It's just a big iPod/iPhone" might be a little bit ignorant, but at the end it's the truth.
They didn't bump up the capabilities and threw away lots of potential.
Steve actually said that it might not be 100% there yet as a PC replacement, but that he strongly believes it will evolve to this point and fill the gaps.
Well, in 7 years of development it got a pen. Same product otherwise.
They didn't bump up the capabilities and threw away lots of potential.
Steve actually said that it might not be 100% there yet as a PC replacement, but that he strongly believes it will evolve to this point and fill the gaps.
Well, in 7 years of development it got a pen. Same product otherwise.
Feel bad for Steve. The iPad of today is not what he ambitioned back then... Steve wanted the iPad to be a computer replacement, instead it became a giant iPod toy to play silly mobile games and watch youtube videos
It did become one in many ways. Look at the tens of thousands of retailers that use iPads instead of a normal POS system. The countless company employees working in sales and other places where the iPad has replaced the messy paperwork they're use to carrying.
For many it has become a laptop replacement. There are numerous families that rely on an iPad rather than bothering to buy a laptop.
No Apple product has been created to be all things to all people. Believing the iPad could totally replace the laptop was never the case and never what Steve intended. It has largely accomplished that goal of replacing laptops for many.
need ipad mini with pro level performance
Oh gosh I remember the announcement. I remember not liking it and not seeing the point in it. Then I bought a gen 2 model months before the 3rd one was released. I bought it on my way home from a meeting whilst feeling flush. I didn't *need* one but there you go.
Fast forward and now I'm sat here in a public library using an iPad Pro, drawing stuff in Procreate with an Apple Pencil, as I start to consider this might become my main computer for both work and pleasure. (Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic!)
It was honestly the best computer/gadget I ever bought this iPad Pro.
I'm currently sketching out a quick picture of my dogs
Fast forward and now I'm sat here in a public library using an iPad Pro, drawing stuff in Procreate with an Apple Pencil, as I start to consider this might become my main computer for both work and pleasure. (Rollercoaster Tycoon Classic!)
It was honestly the best computer/gadget I ever bought this iPad Pro.
I'm currently sketching out a quick picture of my dogs
Yep. At the time, my youngest daughter refused to use anything but Android tablets, since all the best interactive kid's games ran on Flash. Now she uses a MacBook Pro and iPhone.
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Today, we love all our iPads, and I constantly use an iPad mini at home. Many of my posts here are done from one.
The only downside is that all ours are early generation devices, and the latest iOS updates make Safari even flakier due to lack of enough RAM. Page reloads are common on my minis, and annoying.
I'd also love to have the ability for ad-blocking and split-screen, which the early models are not allowed to do.
What's the first iPad mini that can do those things? Thanks!
It was an amazing announcement in my opinion but the thing that sticks out in my mind was the iPad name jokes that likened the product to feminine hygiene products. Of course the iPad is not something people laugh at now...thats for sure!
IMO the iPad has always felt like a secondary device, rather than some flagship product. The iPad Pro is amazing in everything it does - it just needs stuff like a calculator built in, more stuff on the lock screen, just more OS stuff.
They will post Steve Jobs articles for any reason whatsoever. Without him the world has upended.
I'm still using my gen 1 iPad. Works as well as, or better than, it did out of the box.
Maybe he never updated to a newer OS. There would no reason it would be any slower than it was on day 1 then. My first iPad Mini went to hell when I upgraded to iOS 8 so I told my wife not to and hers (still on iOS 7) kills, while I had to get rid of mine and get a newer one.
I don't know about that. 2012 iMac, 2013 Mac Pro, 2015 MacBook, and 2016 AirPods, were all groundbreaking designs.
I got the original iPad (cellular data version) on day 1, and completely loved it. Upgraded to the first Retina display iPad (3) - also the day it was released. Next I switched to the iPad Air 2, and finally the the 9.7" iPad Pro. (My dad inherited the first two, my wife has my Air.) I have loved every single one, and the Pro has the most incredible display for photos, etc. Always spend far more time using my iPad than I do my iPhone and indeed talk far more using FaceTime than with phone calls
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