An inside look at the development of the Apple iPad

This is the true story behind the Apple iPad. Do you want to understand the beginning of the Apple iPad?

It was about ten years ago that Bill Gates stood on the podium at a computer show and held a computer completely oblivious to the audience in the palm of his hand. It had a flat shape and, surprisingly, there was no keyboard to type on. Then he began telling what seemed to be an almost completely incredulous audience that in a couple of years, this foreign-looking computer would become a huge success.

The year was 2000. Bill Gates was showing the world to a Microsoft device called a Tablet PC. The company went to the electronics show the following year and showed it one more time to an incredulous audience.

Microsoft’s brainchild never caught on. For good reason, it was really just a netbook computer, and not something you’d call particularly powerful! To make matters worse, it was missing a keyboard.

Now Apple has introduced a similar version of Microsoft’s Tablet PC with the introduction of the iPad.

So why the big fuss?

So what is the iPad really? Apple took a computer, removed a keyboard, and made it flat. It has respectable power for its size with a central processing unit somewhere between the power of the iPhone and a netbook computer, but much closer to the netbook. The iPad is slim and only half an inch at its thickest surface. It can be considered lightweight, weighing only 1.5 pounds. It runs on an operating system that can be considered a slightly more efficient version than the iPhone version. Its display capabilities consist of an excellent touchscreen display that is super bright with amazing clarity, which is amazing considering the screen measures just 9.7 inches.

The iPad is very versatile, such as being able to browse the web, send emails, store photos, play music and games, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and display e-books. Yes, other devices can do the same, some even better.

The difference between the iPad and those devices to which it is similar lies in what can be achieved with the iPad and what cannot be achieved with other devices.

For starters, it’s highly portable, which means anyone can easily pick it up. It fits comfortably on your lap. You can give it to other people as if it were a book. You can easily rest it on a small coffee table. You can put it in a small bag. You can place it in one hand and read it on a train. I think by now you get the idea.

So why is the iPad such a success today compared to ten years ago when Microsoft’s tablet was released? The answer can be found in Apple’s capabilities. When it came to its version of the tablet computer, Apple had the technology to make it great. Their display technology cannot be matched by any other company. It has special expertise in low power electronics engineering that other companies are jealous of. One example is that the iPad can run for a staggering ten hours of web browsing on a single charge. On top of all this, you have their proprietary multi-touch technology packed right inside the iPad. Attempts by other companies to match this technology have always failed miserably.

So do you now see why Apple’s iPad is such a massive hit? Do you want to try an Apple iPad?

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