If you have continuity working between the iPad and iPhone, it is a big 10" phone.
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Seven Years Ago Today: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPad
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I think it's disappointed how little the iPad changed in 7 years compared to how much the iPhone changed in that time.
How is split screen, PIP video not iPad specific. Or True Tone? Or multitasking gestures? I agree some apps could take a bit better advantage but you then end up changing the simplicity of the device. Its still much nicer browsing the web or checking email or typing on an iPad then on ANY iPhone. The original intention from the words of steve (written about in many articles and books) was "think of it as a larger iPhone" when telling the team what to design.
What more does everyone want???? Oh thats right a Microsoft surface clone. THEN GO BUY ONE!
I remember people being so impressed with what Apple did for the iPad, yet about 6 months earlier Apple packed the same CPU and specs into an iPod Touch that was largely ignored. That version of the iPod Touch remained one of the thinnest iDevices until iPhone 6. The iPad was just a larger iPod Touch, in fact the iPod Touch is really the first iPad Mini.
The iPad introduction event was the first Apple event I watched. I recall guessing that the yet-to-be-introduced device would be called iSlate.
At that point I hadn't bought any Apple devices for myself, though I had bought a couple of iPods for others and had played with an iPod Touch. My brother had for quite a while been trying to turn me on to Macs, even giving me an older Apple laptop when he replaced it. I had used it very little.
But after getting the original iPad, I quickly became an Apple convert. I've since bought for myself dozens of Apple products and moved from Windows PCs to a Mac Mini. I've also bought lots of Apple products for friends and family and turned many of them on to Apple products. In my case, the halo effect (for Apple) of the iPad has been quite substantial.
At that point I hadn't bought any Apple devices for myself, though I had bought a couple of iPods for others and had played with an iPod Touch. My brother had for quite a while been trying to turn me on to Macs, even giving me an older Apple laptop when he replaced it. I had used it very little.
But after getting the original iPad, I quickly became an Apple convert. I've since bought for myself dozens of Apple products and moved from Windows PCs to a Mac Mini. I've also bought lots of Apple products for friends and family and turned many of them on to Apple products. In my case, the halo effect (for Apple) of the iPad has been quite substantial.
Yes, but it proved to be that people actually wanted bigger iPhones. The whole "just a big iPhone" disparagement never had any intellectual heft to it. iOS is a great mobile OS regardless of screen size. Seven years ago I was like "so what." Still say that today.
Still waiting for the iPad to become something more from a software perspective. Really lacking there.
In many ways if you were to use the original iPad or iPad 2 with the software that originally shipped on it, it would be as fast if not faster than todays iPads. The difference is that todays iPads have a lot more going on (split screen, multitasking, etc) And Apple has fallen behind in full software optimization.
I have to agree with you. If you've every used the new MS Surface, its clear this is where the ipad/iPad PRO needs to head.
If by "misdirection" you mean directionless, then yes. But TC lets just about everything that is great about Apple wither away. The iPad is no exception. TC's war cry is simply: Viva la Apple Music and subscription services!
Not really sure what you mean when the iPad has every innovation the iPhone has including a few extra like stylus and docking keyboard support. Style wise, sure, the iPad hasn't changed much, but then neither has the iPhone in 3+ years.
Those were the days indeed. Apple had focus. Now they still have focus but on many things. I would suspect if Steve was still around they would have never made the iPad Pro 12.9 and instead released a larger (now rumored) 10.5 inch in the same form factor.
The same was said about the iPod, and then the iPhone and then the iPad...and then the Watch.......the watch.....yeah the jury is still out. Its neat for sure but its not earth shattering.
My kids your my 1st Gen iPad. I am impressed by how well the battery has held up over the years. The stand-by battery life on that machine is amazing, considering it is almost seven years old.
The iPad doesn't seem very old and then you remember that the YouTube app came pre-loaded and the Music app was called iPod.
What's groundbreaking about all products you listed? They made them thinner, that's it. Even the AirPods are a me-too product.
I agree, iOS 10 added nothing meaningful from a tablet perspective other than support for running Safari tabs side by side. After the release of "Pro" devices, the iOS 10 update was disappointing for its lack of any "Pro" style features.
After teasing fans to "come see our latest creation" in the weeks leading up to one of its famous media events, seven years ago today former Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first-generation iPad to the world. The iPad was announced as a larger-screen counterpart to the company's three-years-old iPhone, with Scott Forstall pointing out during the conference that the tablet could run "virtually every" iPhone app thanks to an on-screen button that users could press to scale the app's resolution up and down on a whim.
The original iPad launched with a 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 resolution touch screen, in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB capacities. The 1.5lb tablet included Apple's A4 chip and was priced at $499, $599, and $699 for Wi-Fi only models, and $629, $729, and $829 for Wi-Fi + 3G models in each respective capacity. The Wi-Fi version debuted on April 3, 2010, while users interested in Wi-Fi and 3G had to wait until April 30 for Apple's new tablet.
Steve Jobs on the iPad:
After the event in 2010, initial reactions to the iPad were largely positive, with sites like Engadget calling it "blazingly fast" and remarking that the tablet had no lag when hopping around its various apps. The screen was thought to be "stunning" and the iPad's iBooks application impressed, thanks to its flipping page animations and library-inspired bookshelf space for eBooks that upheld Apple's then popular skeuomorphic iOS design.
The original iPad's largest drawback centered on its substantial 1.5lb weight, as well as the lack of Flash in its operating system, no multitasking, and no camera. Seven years later, Apple has iterated on its original design and addressed most of these user complaints with each update to the iPad.
The current 12.9-inch iPad Pro weighs about the same as the original iPad at 1.57lbs, and still runs a larger version of iOS, but it's thinner (6.9mm vs 13mm) and is the "most capable and powerful" iPad yet, according to Apple, putting it on par with desktop-class machines.
While the iPad saw strong early adoption, Apple has experienced sales declines in the past few years, with users replacing their iPads less frequently than iPhones. Most commonly, users update their iPhones every year or two, while finding their iPads remain serviceable for longer.
In the company's annual earnings report last October focusing on the fourth fiscal quarter of 2016, iPad sales were down slightly to 9.3 million from 9.9 million in the same year-ago quarter. Although they were also infamously down in sales in 2016, Apple still sold 45.5 million iPhones in the same quarter, down from 48 million in the fourth quarter of 2015.
New iPads are consistently part of the Apple rumor cycle, and 2017 has been no different, with current reports pointing towards the launch of three new iPad Pro models sometime during the calendar year. Apple is believed to put out a new 9.7-inch and 12.9-inch iPad, but the exact screen size of a mysterious middle size model has been up for debate, including 10.1, 10.5, and 10.9-inches.
When it launches, the new 10-inch model may look very different from the 2010 iPad, reportedly doing away with the iconic Home Button, further reducing the size of the tablet's bezels with an edge-to-edge display, and include the usual iterative bumps to camera resolution and speed. One of the ports that the 2017 iPad is rumored to keep intact from its seven-year-old progenitor is the 3.5mm headphone jack, which the iPhone 7 ditched last year.
The full press conference covering Steve Jobs' introduction of the iPad can be viewed on YouTube here.
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