Two years ago Friday Jan. 27, 2010 Apple unveiled the iPad to the world. At the time, critics and analysts were fast to mock the name, criticize the devices shortcomings and predict that while the Apple name would sell the product, it wouldn’t produce a new market.
Boy, were they wrong. The device was an immediate success, speedily turning the fastest-selling gadget of entirely time.
Even those of us who were bullish on the iPad have had our expectations blown away of the water.
As a company, Apple only had its almost successful financial quarter always and sold 15.4 million iPads. Apple CEO Tim Cook says he may 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 especially with the rise of Ultrabooks the merging of the tablet and the computer into one device sure looks possible. Some Windows laptop makers are already attempting such a hybrid, with mixed success.
Two years after its introduction, the iPad has not solely made the modern tablet market, it has had a transformative event on publishing, instruction and entertainment. The rate at which the iPad has gone a widely-adopted composition of technology from the auto service in my vicinity to hospitals to airlines is staggering.
