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When exactly five years ago, on 27 January 2010 (yes, it was only five years ago …) Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPad, the Internet, and traditionally a wave of hejtu . “I was so disappointed since I started going out with Snooki The Situation” – wrote in the American edition of “Newsweek” Daniel Lyons. “IPhone on steroids,” added someone else, throwing Network Jobs picture glued together holding Apple phones and presenting them as the iPad. On Twitter one of the most hasztagów that day was #iTampon password. And yet, when the tablet went on sale, hejt passed, and for a long time many people could not imagine life without the iPad. Is now the time to fade away?
How did the iPad? What is the origin
iPada? Very simple: in 2008, when the great strides approaching the presentation of the MacBook Air, Apple has slowly started to think of a new netbook, cheaper than the thinnest laptop in the world. Jony Ive Then, the chief designer of the company, noted that what most bothers the mobility netbook is the keyboard. Why attach it to the screen? – He asked. Apple already possessed multitouch technology, successfully used in the iPhone. “As the largest simplicity!” Commanded Jobs. Such, at least, is the official version. If we przypatrzyć stories for registration with the US Patent Office, the first traces of the iPad, we find already in 2004.
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iPad introduction (27 Jan 2010) • YouTube
Then, as recalled by Walter Isaacson in his biography of Jobs, Apple’s chief together with Ivo filed an application for registration of a rectangular tablet with rounded corners. And the story itself iPad goes even further, to 2002, when Jobs irritated boast one of the engineers of Microsoft’s boasting about just deflated by Bill Gates tablet with a stylus. Not only Microsoft released last year tablet with a stylus; It also made several other companies and none of these products, as recalled by Isaacson, there was a huge success, or even the announcement of the revolution. “Tablets are attractive for the rich, who already have a lot of other devices” – if Jobs said in an interview.
It’s just that it’s not the biggest problem was the price of the iPad and other tablets, which was preventing producers from serious consideration of their production . The problem was something else: the device can be made, it is true, but, actuall y, I do not know what you can do with it. Exactly five years ago, Jobs described the iPad as “something that is between the MacBook and iPhone”, sent him several emails, scanned photographs and read a couple of articles on the Internet. Not much. For a long time the iPad was considered a waste of money. Why, then, has become a symbol of a crepuscular slow revolution? Helped him to the media.
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Apple iPad 2 official Demo and Presentation • YouTube
Moses Jobs
“The last time any board had such an impact on the world, when Moses lifted two from Mount Sinai “- wrote a few days after the entry iPad to shops weekly” Time “. Daniel Lyons, formerly hejter Apple, changed his mind – on his blog described how in Colombia approached by illiterate child and began to play with his tablet: quite intuitively. Newspapers, as usual, took Jobs and his latest product for sale and covers. They did not know yet that is what the delight, soon lead to their downfall, or – a paradigm shift in which they operate. Jobs predicted, however, that a few weeks after the presentation of the unit flew from California to New York.
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The new iPad (iPad 3) – Video Review on FrazPC.pl • YouTube
iPad has already sold a great one million units a month gone, much sooner than in the case of the iPhone and iPod. In New York, Jobs decided to do what I did on the occasion of the placing on the market of a product that has revolutionized the music industry: meet the current szychami the world, in which unknowingly hit. A big shots were not just any: it was Rupert Murdoch of NewsCorp, editor of “The New York Times’ editorial staff of the American” Newsweek “. Jobs goal was clear: “I want to save the media that do not find themselves in the digital world.” Do you saved? Yes, by the way, killing them. I killed one of their most valuable capital.
Enter the iPad meant a slow decline in sales of traditional paper newspapers (to the extent that two years ago the US “Newsweek” announced that it will be sold exclusively in the release for tablets, and after a year of return to traditional form) and the end of traditional subscr iptions. Therefore: also the end of the collection of data by the corporate media about their prenumeratorach; as a result of the revolution, subscribers to become simply Apple Store customers. I – iBooks Store, which accelerated the process of digitization of books, launched earlier by the Kindle. But – caused too, as recalled later, “Slate”, change the model of reading. iPad revolutionized, destroying the everything in its path.
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#lastprintissue – “Newsweek” wanted to be just for tablets. • photo. Newsweek
Twilight iPad?
His iPad I bought in 2011 and has served me to this day. Initially, I used it to read books on the way, and for several years I was zaczadzony e-ebooks; only a year ago I started to buy more digital than paper books, giving up on the occasion of subscriptions in Newsstand app – and assuming some in another kiosk. The ordinary, next to my house. Amish strategy? Not really. Rather – what I like affects many throughout the world. Because even though Apple iPad still brings a regular income and a best-selling tablet, for several years its sales decline. In 2013, the company sold nearly 75 million units. In 2014 – ten million less.
iPad kill three things. First of all – the fact that those who a few years ago zachłysnęli the technological revolution is slowly beginning to have her pretty and note that reading traditional books or newspapers is much more pleasant than wgapiania in glowing screen. Secondly 211; Apple itself, with the introduction of the iPhone 6 Plus – phabletu that allows reading content as comfortable as on the iPad, not to mention anything about the iPad mini. Thirdly – competition. Because when the launch of the first phabletu Apple began to develop this with their sectors, tablets clearly neglected. Not neglected their competitors.
According to IDC data from the third quarter of last year, sales increased budget tablet Lenovo or Asus, its place in the market is Samsung. iPad falls all the time, and, analysts predict, could wait it out soon the same fate as the iPod – the product offered by the company, which is not developed, but you can still buy it. And what about the revolution that began five years ago? Well, even if he remains a dead product, it is – will remain a fact.
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