Two years ago Friday Jan. 27, 2010 Apple unveiled the iPad to the world. At the time, critics and analysts were flying to mock the name, criticize the devices shortcomings and predict that while the Apple cite would sell the product, it wouldn’t make a young market.
Boy, were they wrong. The device was an immediate success, quickly becoming the fastest-selling gadget of wholly time.
Even those of us who were bullish on the iPad receive received our expectations blown out of the water.
As a company, Apple merely received its most successful financial quarter ever and sold 15.4 million iPads. Apple CEO Tim Make says he can envision a time when the tablet market will be larger than the PC market, at least in numbers of units sold.
Looking at the trends in computing specially with the ascent of Ultrabooks the merging of the tablet and the computer into one device surely seems possible. Some Windows laptop makers are already attempting such a hybrid, with mixed success.
Two years after its introduction, the iPad has not entirely created the modern tablet market, it has received a transformative result on publishing, instruction and entertainment. The rate at which the iPad has got a widely-adopted piece of technology from the auto service in my vicinity to hospitals to airlines is staggering.