Two years ago Friday Jan. 27, 2010 Apple unveiled the iPad to the world. At the time, critics and analysts were flying to mock the name, criticize the devices shortcomings and predict that while the Apple mention would sell the product, it wouldn’t make a new market.
Boy, were they wrong. The device was an immediate success, rapidly becoming the fastest-selling gadget of whole time.
Even those of us who were bullish on the iPad experience had our expectations blown out of the water.
As a company, Apple merely had its virtually successful financial quarter ever and sold 15.4 million iPads. Apple CEO Tim Fix says he could envision a time when the tablet market will exist larger than the PC market, at least in numbers of units sold.
Looking at the trends in computing particularly with the ascension of Ultrabooks the merging of the tablet and the computer into one device surely seems possible. Some Windows laptop makers are already attempting such a hybrid, with mixed success.
Two years afterwards its introduction, the iPad has not solely made the modernistic tablet market, it has received a transformative consequence on publishing, pedagogy and entertainment. The rate at which the iPad has become a widely-adopted piece of technology from the machine service in my locality to hospitals to airlines is staggering.
