He was the first

On January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs gave a presentation on how Apple was creating a device that would sit between laptops and netbooks, with no compromises between these two product classes. This device was the iPad and was announced with a starting price of $499.

However, Apple did not rush to make an official announcement and kept buyers waiting. The first iPad appeared in the US on April 3. It was released in limited release in international markets on April 23, and expanded further on May 28. The tablet was a huge success; Buyers lined up to own the first generation of the new product.

Arriving in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Great Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, Canada and France, the iPad has already gained enough momentum to expand to other regions. 1 million devices sold in the first monthand this is just one of the problems that tech companies really love to face; production can’t keep up with demand, it was that great.

• Compared to the current 11-inch and 13-inch M4 iPad Pro models, the first version looks quite dated; It has a 9.7-inch screen with huge frames on all four corners and a resolution of 1024×768 pixels.
• It was powered by a single-core ARM Cortex-A8 processor with a clock frequency of 1.00 GHz and 256 megabytes of DDR RAM.
• At that time, buyers could buy it in variants with 16 gigabytes, 32 gigabytes or 64 gigabytes of memory.
• This may surprise you but Apple’s first iPad didn’t have a cameraand even then it became one of the fastest-selling products in the company’s history.

This literally allowed competitors to dream of at least some of this success – they began to imitate and copy to keep up with trends. Many of the current standards we accept were set by this first Apple tablet and its successors.

Of course, it wasn’t without problems. Several later publications stated: the price of the device is high and the laptop will be both cheaper and more useful, than the giant browser advertised. The first iPad was also criticized for its lack of Adobe Flash support and the confusing way to share files with another computer.

However, its success paved the way for the iPad 2, which was announced on March 2, 2011 and, like its predecessor, became an instant bestseller.