Apple's iPad Turns 16 Today

Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the archetypal iPad 16 years agone today, marking implicit 1 and a fractional decades of the company's "revolutionary" tablet.


Jobs unveiled the first-generation ‌iPad‌ astatine the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts successful San Francisco connected January 27, 2010. Designed to capable the spread betwixt smartphones and laptops, the archetypal ‌iPad‌ featured a 9.7-inch LED-backlit multitouch display, Apple's archetypal customized designed chip, a 30-pin dock connector, and up to 64GB storage. With a starting terms of $499, it offered users a caller mode to browse the web, work eBooks, ticker videos, and interact with Apple's increasing app ecosystem. Jobs described it arsenic "a magical and revolutionary device."

iPad is our astir precocious exertion successful a magical and revolutionary instrumentality astatine an unbelievable price. iPad creates and defines an wholly caller class of devices that volition link users with their apps and contented successful a overmuch much intimate, intuitive and amusive mode than ever before.

The ‌iPad‌ utilized a mentation of iOS tailored for its larger display, bringing a big-screen acquisition to acquainted mobile apps similar Safari, Mail, and Photos. It introduced the iBooks app and iBookstore arsenic portion of an effort to vie successful the e-reading abstraction dominated by Amazon's Kindle. Its plan was characterized by heavy achromatic bezels, a carnal location button, and a convex aluminum back. It weighed 1.5 pounds and offered 10 hours of artillery life.

The archetypal reception to the ‌iPad‌ was mixed. While galore praised its lightweight computing and media depletion experience, others questioned its necessity and imaginable to regenerate laptops.

Nevertheless, the ‌iPad‌ sold implicit 300,000 units connected its motorboat time successful April 2010 and 1 cardinal wrong its archetypal month. It catalyzed the instauration of a caller merchandise category, sparking contention from rivals specified arsenic Samsung, Microsoft, and Amazon. By the extremity of 2010, Apple had sold implicit 15 cardinal iPads, generating $9.5 cardinal successful gross and solidifying the instrumentality arsenic a cardinal pillar of the company's merchandise lineup.

The ‌iPad‌ has since go a tentpole instrumentality for Apple, expanding into merchandise lines including the iPad mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro and accessories specified arsenic the Apple Pencil and Magic Keyboard. Subsequent models introduced cameras, multitasking, antithetic show size options, USB-C connectivity, and more. See Apple's original property release from 2010 for much information.
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