Introducing iPad
he original iPad was essentially a handheld 9.7–inch XGA (1024x768 pixel) screen with built–in storage (16GB, It was a mere 13mm thick, weighed just 680g, and had an impressive 10 hours of battery life. It wasn’t the first tablet computer, but it was revolutionary in one key respect: it didn’t require a keyboard or a stylus. Instead, you used your fingers. In this way, as Steve Jobs put it at the time, it created “an entirely new category of devices that will connect users with their apps and content in a much more intimate, intuitive, and fun way than ever before”.
