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The original iPad was important enough to get its own live on-stage introduction by the late Steve Jobs.
It’s a different story for theiPads we’re expecting on May 7.
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), new designs (thinner than ever!
), wireless charging (oh, just make this so), and a completely reimagined Apple Pencil.
It’ll be exciting, in a way, but also anti-climactic.
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Jobs, a tiny figure before the screen, held up the iPad to wild applause.
As radical as the iPad introduction appeared, Jobs knew that we already understood the product.
They are still going to be around [but] one out of x people will need them."
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I praised Jobs as an “oracle,“and the numbers backed him up.
By 2011, Apple was reporting 15 million iPads sold and owned 90% of the tablet market share.
It’s a tablet but also a personal computer or “PC”.
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There is no post-PC world, just a world of laptops and tablets that are racing toward the middle.
It could be your word processor and your spreadsheet manager.
It was lighter than a Netbook but far prettier and a lot more fun to use.
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Is it a PC?
Today’s iPad, iPad Mini, and especially iPad Pro are laptops in tablet’s clothing.
The new models will surely feature M3 chips.
I’m not sorry the post-PC idea is dead.
When Jobs floated it, I worked at a publication with “PC” in the name.
I also knew consumers might not care so much about such technology labels.
It satisfied their cravings for content and entertainment and, to their surprise, was built to last.
you’re able to’t be Post-anything if the products last forever.
Let’s see if Apple chooses a new path.
