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Apps can help you work, rest and and improve Random access memories Apple iPad (2010) This was the biggest tablet since Moses
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The original iPad weighed in at 680g, or 730g if you got a 3G-enabled one. Even the current 12.9in iPad Pro is lighter. Those bezels must have been filled with lead …
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RANDOM ACCESS MEMORIES 2010
Apple iPad (1st gen)
h my, the bezels. I can’t take my eyes off of them. They’re huge! That chunky screen surround demonstrates that , although this ten-year - old tablet is recognisably an iPad, Apple has not stood still. Its first crack at the form factor also lacked a camera, and had a reflective screen with a lowish resolution that today feels like the pixels are slicing into your eyeballs. Still, it was user-friendly; you could hold the internet in your hands and make the iPad ‘be’ anything via apps. But yes, it now feels its age next to the iPad Pro, which fully made good on the platform’s promise.
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But you still can’t do proper work on it, no ? It’s just a blown-up iPhone! That joke hasn’t aged any better than its subject. Dismissing the iPad as a giant iPhone was always odd, since that was its strength : d ispensing with fluff. Th e message was clear when the device was first revealed: a relaxed Steve Jobs sat in an easy chair, thumbing through the internet, casually ignoring broken Flash containers while Adobe execs raged in their offices. As for ‘proper work’, you got a bigger canvas for finger-painting in Brushes and getting organised with Things – although typing on glass was never much fun.
Hence why PC makers finally won this war with touchscreen laptops! The end! Only if you’re a masochist. Most touchscreen laptops offer a miserable tablet experience that feels tacked - on. They lack focus because they’re trying to be all things to all people. Ironically, that’s a problem Apple also now faces, given the emergence of iPadOS, increasing complexity due to pro-orientated user demands, and ludicrously convoluted multitasking gestures. The company’s battle over the next ten years will be figuring out how to propel the iPad into the future without ditching the accessible elegance of its past.
