There was constantly the mistrust that an anti-climax was on the cards. The hype for the next big object from Apple had been building since the launch of the iPhone but the seeds had been sown much earlier. Now, after a million words in academic articles, blogs and tweets, the iPad is among us.
Jobs hopped straight in: “Everyone uses a notebook and/or a smartphone. The question has arisen lately: is there room for a third category device in the middle?”
Seemingly there is and the iPad is Apple’s first stab to fill it – you can see the device in action inour photo story here.
The first response to the iPad was amazement that there wasn’t more to the device. I followed a number of live feeds from inside the occasion multipart and all were expecting a big finish. But it never really arrived.
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