Happy 2nd Birthday iPad

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It’s really hard to believe that it has only been two years since the announcement of the iPad, but it’s true. It seems like iconic tablet has been around forever considering all of the imitators it has generated and in doing so, has improved the entire spectrum of hand-held devices, no matter what OS it runs. Happy second birthday iPad! :cool:
 
" considering all of the imitators"

Arthur C Clarke and Gene Roddenberry would like to have a few words ;)
 
2 years and absolutely nothing worthy of the title "competitor".

"Imitators", lol

Nice.
 
i though someone would have made cake of ipad 3 considering how apple seems to loose those things in the bars (i wish i could get drunk on the job)
 
Happy Birthday!

The iPad is certainly a seminal device and probably has changed computing forever, so much so that Microsoft looks to be going all in with a pretty radical design of Windows to compete with it.
 
What a beautiful cake that is.
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The cake is a lie!! Sorry to be Mr. Anal about this and I certainly must be wrong since a lot of sites are celebrating the January 27th date as iPad's birthday but it was just introduced on that day and wasn't available to purchase until April 3, 2010. Since when is an "introduction" considered a birthday? In life, which gets celebrated as "the birthday" of a person.. the day of the baby shower, the mother using the pregnancy test to confirm she is pregnant, the day of conception, or the day the actual baby pops out of the womb?

Windows 1.0 was announced in November 1983 but not released until November 20, 1985.. so when did Wired put out it's "Happy 25th Birthday to Windows 1.0" article.. November 2008 or November 2010.. November 20, 2010 like they should have.

Apple Macintosh's birthday isn't celebrated for when it was first introduced to the press in October 1983 or when it's 18-page brochure was included with various magazines in December 1983 or even when it was seen in the "1984" Super Bowl commercial.. it was January 24, 1984 when it became available for sale. Search for "Macintosh birthday" and all the sites acknowledge the date is January 24.

This is why it doesn't seem like the iPad has been around for two years, because it hasn't.. it has only been one year, nine months and twenty five days since anyone could have bought it. Last year many sites celebrated the iPad's "birthday" as January 24 so at least they are being consistent in using that date, but at least one article did mention that..

there is a certain amount of debate surround the iPad's birthday - should it be 27 January, when it was announced, or 3 April, when it first went on sale? It was the Wi-Fi only version that was available that day
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January 27, 2010 was the day Apple announced it was pregnant with the iPad.
 
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A 2nd birthday party for imitators...of a device that was in a movie back in the 70's. Nice.
 
I just tried to find the movie I was talking about...not an easy task. Closest I came was the 1968 movie Space 2001, which had a tablet like device in it, which samsung is using against Apple to disprove it's 'Prior art' claim.

Anyone know the other futirustic movies name? It had a scene with an agent/spy, using a touch screen device identical to an ipad, and it was from the 70's.
 
BBA said:
A 2nd birthday party for imitators...of a device that was in a movie back in the 70's. Nice.
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I've seen time machines in movies too - so I guess if anybody ever does invent one you'll just say "Pssh, I saw that in a movie 50 years ago..big deal.' If anybody ever actually makes a spaceship capable of going faster than light you'll just say 'Ahh, who cares, movies did it long ago.'

There's a difference between - 'faked it in a movie' and ACTUALLY developing it and having it out there for people to use.
 
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Yummy looking food.. bet it goes great with Tang!


Why the harping on Apple copying the "2001 A Space Odyssey" tablet when others made similar looking devices before the iPad was produced..

2003 Fujitsu Tablet PC
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1989 GRiDPad
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1966 Star Trek "tablet" (which looks amazing like the GRiDPad without the flashing lights)
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1990s
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Flintstone's tablet: sometime between 50 million to 100,000 years ago:
Note: Dinosaurs roam free in the background, making accurate time determination a bit tricky.
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1994 Knight-Ridder newspaper tablet
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2005 ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC
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Apple Newton "Bic" Prototype from 1993/94
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The point is that the concept and realization of what a "tablet" should look like has been around for a long time. A tablet can only look just so many ways before it starts to look like something else and thus ceases to be a "tablet", just as all laptops pretty much have the same basic shape. The iPad looks just as similar and as just as different from the "Space Odyssey" tablet as any other tablet that has been produced. The Space Odyssey tablet has way too many buttons to be an Apple product!

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I remember when I first heard the name, I thought it was some Apple-branded tampon.
 
Same old argument. We all went through the same bullshit about the iPhone. No the iPhone wasn't the first of its kind, but it did revolutionize its market. Without it we'd have shit for touch-based smart phones. Same goes with the iPad and the tablet market. The tablet market was pretty much nonexistent until the iPad rolled through. Now it's alive and well - and we've got good tablets to choose from. Without the iPad, we'd have the same type of tablet market we had before the iPad - one that didn't exist.
 
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Same old argument. We all went through the same bullshit about the iPhone. No the iPhone wasn't the first of its kind, but it did revolutionize its market. Without it we'd have shit for touch-based smart phones. Same goes with the iPad and the tablet market. The tablet market was pretty much nonexistent until the iPad rolled through. Now it's alive and well - and we've got good tablets to choose from. Without the iPad, we'd have the same type of tablet market we had before the iPad - one that didn't exist.
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I believe my first windows PC phone was in use years before the first iPhone was released. Let's see, I had that back in 1998. In fact, it's still useable today, touch screen and camera and navigation still work, just needs a sim card. All Apple did was improve on the feel of it and add modern stuff, which is more of an expected incremental advancement. I just do not see how Apple thinks they own the technology world based on 'prior art' when these things existed years before Apple claims.
 
heatlesssun said:
Come back in a month and tell us what you think.
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I've had my touchpad since the fire sale a few months back....I still use the heck out of it. Had I paid $600 for it I might not see the same value and usefulness in it.
 
BBA said:
I believe my first windows PC phone was in use years before the first iPhone was released. Let's see, I had that back in 1998. In fact, it's still useable today, touch screen and camera and navigation still work, just needs a sim card. All Apple did was improve on the feel of it and add modern stuff, which is more of an expected incremental advancement. I just do not see how Apple thinks they own the technology world based on 'prior art' when these things existed years before Apple claims.
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It was leagues more than in "incremental advancement". Come on - I'm no Apple guy in any way, but to say the iPhone was an incremental advancement is complete and utter denial. What did it "incrementally advance", then? Nothing - because there was nothing that came even close to it at the time. I say again - it revolutionized the smart/touch phone market in a big way and that is a fact.
 
khanable said:
2 years and absolutely nothing worthy of the title "competitor".

"Imitators", lol

Nice.
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Trollolololol... :rolleyes:

Android tablets have come a long way in the last few years. My Xoom with ICS is still getting a lot of use from me.
 
stop!theradio said:
It was leagues more than in "incremental advancement". Come on - I'm no Apple guy in any way, but to say the iPhone was an incremental advancement is complete and utter denial. What did it "incrementally advance", then? Nothing - because there was nothing that came even close to it at the time. I say again - it revolutionized the smart/touch phone market in a big way and that is a fact.
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There were a few phones that did everything it iPhone did and more. The only thing the iPhone did better was throw it into a sleeker, more attractive package that people other than IT nerds wanted.
 
Yeah - everything it did minus actually being useful as a touch device. No other touch device compared, at all.
 
stop!theradio said:
Yeah - everything it did minus actually being useful as a touch device. No other touch device compared, at all.
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It's easy to overarchingly say "nothing else compared at all", it's another thing entirely backing it up. Touchscreen phones had been around for years by the introduction of the first iPhone. However, these earlier devices were always advertised and marketed to a very technical crowd, and never gained popularity. Then apple came along and said "oh look at our shiny new phone. It looks great with your handbag. Look, it takes nifty pictures, and has a slidy bar thing you can drag across the screen to unlock it". And the sheep came flocking.

I'll hand it to Apple, their advertising department knows just who to target to get the most sales. But on a technical scale, to say no other device compared is an outright lie.
 
I'd like to see something that was as functionally sound as the iPhone at the time of launch or before it. Please, show me something that was as fast, responsive and versatile as the iPhone was at launch.
 
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