Apple's iPad turns 2: A look back and ahead
Apple's iPad made its debut two years ago today. CNET takes a look back at its origins, its successes, and what's rumored to be coming next. Originally posted at Apple Talk
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Two Years of Apple's iPad: Happy Second Birthday, Innovative Tablet!
Two years ago, Steve Jobs showed us the original iPad. Here are some of the milestones for the innovative slate over the past 24 months.
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Happy 2nd Birthday, iPad. What Will This Toddler Be When it Grows up?
Two years ago this Friday -- Jan. 27, 2010 -- Apple unveiled the iPad to the world. At the time, critics and analysts were quick to mock the name, criticize the devices shortcomings and predict that while the Apple name would sell the product, it wouldn't create a new market.
Daily iPad App: LostWinds
I really enjoyed LostWinds when it came out on the Wii a couple of years ago -- it's a physics-based platformer, essentially, but the twist is that you don't just control a really beautifully rendered little kid named Toku wandering around a very artistic world, you also control the wind spirit that can push him and various objects in the environment around. On the Wii, this was accomplished ...
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The NetBook Is Dead, The iPad Killed It, Don’t Buy One
"]RIP Netbooks [Image by A.M. Kuchling via Flickr Three years ago, Apple had a problem. Sales of Apple’s notebook computers were surging and no one was noticing. Cheap $400 netbook computers were selling fast, bloating market share figures for Apple’s rivals. Sure, the machines had dinky screens and janky keyboards. In
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IPad, iPhone vigils salute Steve Jobs
share: digg facebook twitter The company announced no cause of death, but Jobs had been diagnosed with a rare pancreatic cancer seven years ago and had a liver transplant in 2009. On Thursday, the Apple website, which usually features slick presentations of multicolored iPods and ever-thinner MacBook laptop computers, simply displayed a black-and-white photo of Jobs, thumb and finger to his ...
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IPad, iPhone vigils honor Steve Jobs
share: digg facebook twitter The company announced no cause of death, but Jobs had been diagnosed with a rare pancreatic cancer seven years ago and had a liver transplant in 2009. On Thursday, the Apple website, which usually features slick presentations of multicolored iPods and ever-thinner MacBook laptop computers, simply displayed a black-and-white photo of Jobs, thumb and finger to his ...
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Daily iPad App: Demibooks Composer
One of the great Apple products many years ago was HyperCard , which allowed non-programmers to easily build interactive "stacks" with many linked pages (cards). Now a new iPad app, Demibooks Composer (free) brings a similar capability of easy creation to anyone who would like to publish an interactive iPad book and sell it on the App Store. You can learn the basics of Demibooks Composer in just ...
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The iPad in Your Hand: As Fast as a Supercomputer of Yore
It’s common wisdom that the computer you can hold in the palm of your hand today is as powerful as a computer from years ago that filled an entire room.
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Can iPad Help Schools?
Fifty years ago, no one could have conceived of an invention as revolutionary as the Internet, let alone the iPad . But neither would anyone then have guessed that educational progress would remain stagnant for the next half century.
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iPad changes the way we get news
IN the first edition of The Courier-Mail, almost 80 years ago, the editors promised that the newspaper would provide readers with a digestible coverage of the events of the day.
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