Apple Announced the iPad 15 Years Ago Today

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https://www.macrumors.com/2025/01/27/apple-announced-ipad-15-years-ago-today/

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the original iPad 15 years ago today, marking one and a half decades of the company's "revolutionary" tablet.


Jobs unveiled the first-generation ‌iPad‌ at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on January 27, 2010. Designed to fill the gap between smartphones and laptops, the original ‌iPad‌ featured a 9.7-inch LED-backlit multitouch display, Apple's first custom designed chip, a 30-pin dock connector, and up to 64GB storage. With a starting price of $499, it offered users a new way to browse the web, read eBooks, watch videos, and interact with Apple's growing app ecosystem. Jobs described it as "a magical and revolutionary device."

iPad is our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price. iPad creates and defines an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before.

Still use my first.

I got it to display music scores and books, and it still does. Every iPad has a selection of some of my "better" photos from the Nikons, for showing off.

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1. I had an early mini but rarely used it

I work in front of a 27" monitor all day and use the iPhone when I'm away. The iPad always seemed like a redundancy. Same with Apple Watch.

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2. I'm replying on an iPad Pro, sitting on the piano, where it knows its primary job.

I just need a break now and then.

Neither the piano bench nor the chair in front of my 27 inch monitor is comfortable.

The watch was a gift from my family, concerned that I live alone on a ridge with big old rocks, and billions of slippery oak leaves. It does remind me to keep in shape. Climbing rocks at age 76. What the heck. Gotta have some fun.

The iPad Pro is in a case with keyboard and trackpad and I got a mouse.

The mini is too small to read music or books. It’s a big phone to me. I mainly use the phone for the weather app, to determine when it’s warm enough to go out and climb rocks.

Being retired may be a quite different context from yours!!

Mozart’s Birthday, so when I finish replies, it’s back to the 88 key keyboard.

Enjoy!