Secret History of iPad
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10-years ago, on January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs announced a third category of device in the middle, something that’s between a laptop and a smartphone.
Something that had to be better as browsing, email, photos, video, music, gaming, and eBooks. Something that had to be… the iPad.
And this is its history and secret origin.
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I love those throwback review videos!! haha!! Wow..
They’re so much fun!
“That’s the dumbest thing ever.”
- me when iPad was introduced
“This is the greatest thing ever!”
- me after getting an iPad
Ha! So many!
Same but with the Apple Watch
Once Apple proved me wrong with the iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Pencil, I stopped being a contrarian and started listening and using before I made any judgements.
I still enjoy Windows, Android, and various Linux distro devices, but Apple’s devices really do the best job of integrating into my life seamlessly.
Samuel Sanchez I have the pencil still not totally sold on it but I got it for cheap on sale and open box. So meh it was not the full 130 I keep it for my more artsy friends to doodle when we hang.
#mealso
I got the first iPad and loved it! My husband got it for me as a gift for my birthday bc my mother had dementia and was moving in with us and I was going to be taking care of her 24 hrs a day and he wanted me to have something I could do and take care of her at the same time... it was exactly what helped me get thru all of it. Since then my mother has passed away but when I think of the first iPad I think of my mom and how it helped me get thru those days. 😊
theshymachine1 i got it too but too badd it wont start up anymore
that makes me sad
The iPad name came from the “newspad,” a fictional product from the “2001: A Space Odyssey” novel by Arthur C. Clarke, describing a future tablet computer. And yes, the iPad matched the touch interface that Clarke wrote about in the book.
Apple was taking science fiction from past decades, and turning it into an everyday consumer product.
iJustine “uhh the iPad, Apple store?” Lol
Ian Lucas 😂
😂 I’m glad I’m not the only one who caught the awkward
I don’t get it
Yoyo there was a part in the video her iJustin and she said that
How revolutionary, even 10 years later
Very much so
This was a great video Renee! This was hearing, seeing the history of this. I hope you do more of these
I remember watching the iPad announcement, chatting with a bunch of my friends over the network. When Steve started talking about the price, everyone in our chat held our breath (or at least our typing...). He said "pricing starts at $499", and our chat thread was a whole stream of people saying "Sold!," "Sold!", "Sold!". Probably 10-15 of those went by before Steve got to the next word.
So for many of the people in that chat, including me, we bought or at least ordered the first version of the iPad on the first day Apple would sell them (or accept orders). In my case I skipped the iPad 2, but then upgraded to the "retina iPad" when that was released.
10 years later and there's still no competition in the tablet world. Pretty phenomenal really
iPad has been an amazing device. The recent Pros are finally making the next leap into what I think we’ve all hoped from it. I have the 10.5” iPad Pro and it’s still a powerful tool with the Pencil and the Smart Keyboard. Only going to get better.
I still have my first iPad from about 8 years ago and although long since abandoned on software updates, it still works well and has decent battery.
Aluminum and glass has proven really sturdy if they don't get overly abused.
I bought my first iPad, an iPad 2, in March of 2011 and it is still in daily use, mounted on a kitchen cupboard near the stove. My wife and I both use it for recipes, of course, but also for social media and as a TV screen, for both webcast and Over The Air programming. It is amazing how much still works on this device.
My first iPad was the iPad 2. I’ve virtually owned every iPhone up till and still rock the 6s. Because I haven’t needed to upgrade the phone for how I use iOS devices currently. In 2012 I decided to move from PCs and laptops to solely iPad for music creation, I was extremely pissed at how many “pundits” at the time had written off iPad as a consumption device and knew they were incredibly short sighted. I’m so glad I saw this and went down the rabbit hole of making ios my creation station. Currently I run my own recording studio as a vocalist and multi instrumentalist using multiple iPads. The main beast is my 2018 iPad Pro, iPad 2017 and an iPad min 3. All connected to an amazing recording and video production suite. I own a crappy windows laptop for live streaming video and that’s it. I’ve released several albums and have a major album I’ve been working on many years almost ready to be released. Along with my debut feature film made solely on iPad. I’ve followed iMore since way before they name change and even won 2 iPad minis from iMore back around 2013. My music and video creation stuff can be found on my UA-cam Chanel and on my website. jadestarr.com.au Cheers Rene for all you do. Still a big fan!
14:53 look at you! Now I'm trying to imagine you, but even younger 😂😂😂😂
Vector model 1.2010
I still think the iPad is the best Apple product I own. I have an iPad Air 2 since launch and use it daily for 5+ years now. Absolutely love it!
What's baffling to me is that, after 10 years, the iPad is still in a class by itself, the competitors have caught the iPhone, but the Android tablets have not and the lack of optimized apps for tablets on Android 10 years later is extraordinary.
I was NOT expecting to see Flossy Carter in this video 😂. Very cool
The iPad 2 was my first iPad, as well as my first Apple product, coming from years of working with PCs. I kept using the iPad 2 on a daily basis as my primary device, while I still had the Asus laptop I'd bought just a few months before the iPad 2. By 2013, I was already thinking I could replace my laptop with the iPad, if only Apple could make an iOS version of Nik Software's Silver Efex Pro 2, the Photoshop and Lightroom photoediting plugin I was using in Lightroom 4.0. I already had Snapseed, also developed by Nik Software, and, as it would turn out, I discovered that Snapseed contained all the features of Silver Efex Pro 2, just with different names and touch-screen functionality. So, well before I upgraded (in 2019) to a 2018 iPad 9.7", I had already been doing just about everything I do on the iPad 2 since buying it in 2012. I laughed at all the tech nerds saying you couldn't use anything less than an iPad Pro to do photoediting, and the even less imaginative among them saying you couldn't even use any iPad at all for photoediting! Since upgrading to my iPad 6, which is running iOS 13.3, my iPad 2 was still running, though the battery needed recharging a few times a day, by then. I have wiped it and given it to a friend as a gift, while I have moved on with my iPad 6. Even though I have gained features I never had before, like Siri, I don't use Siri at all, as I am staying away from all "digital assistants," and I recently quit using a Bluetooth keyboard after learning of Bluetooth's gaping security hole and I will be using a wired USB to Lightning keyboard made by Lenovo, which is an exact duplcate of the Lenovo Thinkpad keyboards that are my favorite.
Rene, another great video. That walk down Memory/History Lane was most enjoyable. You are like the Mr. Peabody of our generation with these history videos. I even loved the flashback to your younger self, shall we call it Baby Rene? We were all so young then! I was so exited when Steve introduced the iPad. I had always felt trapped or cramped on the small iPhone or iPod Touch screen that this was a godsend for me. To this day my iPad is usually the first thing I pick up in the morning and the last thing I put away at night. It was the device I never knew I needed and still do to this day.
It's now been mathematically proven that a rectangular solid has six sides at 14:52. Count'em!
I saw some UA-cam clip with someone drawing with sketchbook pro on it that convinced me to buy the OG iPad. After a week, sketching with my finger was second nature and I still finger doodle on my phone. It was the best sketchbook ever, no more graphite and leaking pens and dirty side of my hands while sketching.
After 10 years it still works, my aunt is using it.
iPad has changed my life in school since 7th grade I’m in 10th now …I’m visually impaired and it helps me take pictures of the bored /TV and do my school work in PDFs
Edit: my first iPad was the iPad Air 2 and now I have the iPad Air 3
Brilliant, Rene! Simply brilliant. I still have my original iPad, the world changing device, and it still works.
I have two. One got water damage, alas. The other still works.
ERRATA: Type in two of the lower thirds, dagnabit. AUDI > AUDIO. Guess I need more Brilliant! Go to brilliant.org/vector/ and get 20% off their annual Premium subscription! And then tell me - what was YOUR first iPad?
Rene Ritchie iPad 6 - the one I’m using to watch this video😁 I’m a first year iSheep 😂
My first iPad was the iPad 2, and I bought it after the iPad 3 came out. Fun fact: At the time, Apple store employees of the time actually told me that the Retina display on the 3 was overkill. My next iPads were the iPad Air, iPad Air 2, and iPad Mini 2, all of which were cellular models, something that I absolutely decided that I wanted after my Wi-Fi only iPad 2. Currently, I'm on the 10.5-inch iPad Pro, anxiously awaiting the next one for an upgrade (the current 11-inch is too old to buy now).
Bought the original iPad.
Purchased the original-still in use today as photo album.
Had the original iPad.
Your paint-the-back-of-the-fence analogy perfectly describes an Apple product in general! This very attitude is what separates, and has always separated Apple from almost every single competitor out there!
In fact, I believe that this way of developing products is exactly what kept Apple alive when Steve first came back! The-pre-dust-and-polish-those-diodes-before-shipping policies were what us old Apple guys loved about their products!
Of course we remained loyal! And Apple has earned it’s loyal customer base.
BTW, how many out there remember THE EXPERIENCE’ of that iPad? Absolutely awe-inspiring!
Watching this on an iPad
Wasnt expecting to see Floss 🤣 all yall haters.. trolls.. close ya eyes and picture me rollin!
iPad 3 was my first tablet and I’m writing this on an iPad Pro! 😊
The throwback footage of all the prominent tech UA-camrs was great lol, crazy how different humans look over time. Great video Rene.
@15:42 - I love the quoting of that awesome iPad 2 commercial.
My first iPad was iPad 2 in 2011. I don’t use it now, but my kids had from me 5 years ago. After a lot of drops and kicks, it’s glass is shattered, and even the camera is completely stripped off. However it’s still working. This is amazing how a product can live all this time with tough use.
Amazing Apple.
Watching this on my iPad Pro 2018. I edit my videos, photos & write on it.
Hands down best computer I’ve ever used :)
13:14 is that Ijustine?
It it!
Jobs was deifnetly right when he said the iPad had to be between an iPhone and a Mac. At the time, I don’t think Apple or Jobs hit the mark. It really did lean more toward a big iPhone with some kinda Mac like functionality. As we look at iPad today, it really does strike the middle ground. The hardware is great for being a big iPhone and the software is great (and just getting started) for doing Mac like things. It’s growing into it’s own product and I think that’s great.
Wow! Look at how young some of the reviewers we respect today are as they hold the original iPad.
get an idea of the time stamp of technology is by looking at the reviewers at the time.
This was great! Awesome storytelling.
Outstanding video Rene. :-)
I got an iPad for Christmas. I was in heaven, best gift ever. That’s when I got sucked into the Apple ecosystem.
K M One of us! One of us! 😉😂
My first iPad was the gen 6 in October 2018, and it was great. I just got the 11" iPad Pro for Christmas and I love it. I don't even use my Laptop anymore. I opted for the Smart Folio and Magic Keyboard as opposed to the all in one Keyboard Folio. I just don’t need a keyboard all the time so the separate Magic Keyboard work better for me and I love the extra row of keys up top.
This is such a great video. I never knew the genesis of the iPad, but my life hasn’t been the same since it came out. It’s the device that I want to keep with me no matter what is going to on, whether I am teaching, traveling or at home, iPad is there with me. Well done Sir!
My first iPad was and is the 7th generation 10.2 iPad. Gotta say it was a step up from my 2014 Samsung Galaxy TAB E.
Damn I was surprised to see Flossy! Actually even back then he only pledged allegiance to hotness. What a man.
Bought my wife the first iPad
It’s still with us
The iPad or the wife?
just kidding
:P
Would love to know if you still use it, or how it operates after this long
Mine works fine
I have Spotify on it, don’t use it for much else. If you have 2 factor auth on it’s hard to sign in
Sucks that your wife is gone but at least the iPad is still with you pretty sure the iPad is better anyways
wife or milf
The original iPad was a big regret for me. It wasn't until mobile games started to gain momentum and publishers like Namco, Square, and EA started to make iPad specific titles that it became my primary gaming device. Each release of a new iPad meant my games would run faster and look better. This holds true today since sitting on a couch with my iPad is my favorite media and gaming experience.
Good history lession! My first was the original mini. Decent enough for its first year but got old quickly as the web evolved. Wish I would’ve held out for the Mini 2.. Today I’m on the mini 5 that I bring with me on the go and a 10.5” Pro that I keep at home.
Thank you!
This video is wroth watching just to see a young Rene! :)
While I was able to get the original iPhone, sadly it took me up until 2019 to get an iPad. Even then, I have the original iPad Air and it will never get updated past iOS12. That being said, I have always loved the iPad. Apple have been doing tremendous things with the platform and it truly is more than the sum of its parts. Apple has a way of making things truly great. While I may only get around $50 to $80 for my old iPad Air now, it still provides me with 5x that in value.
I'm still using the iPad 2 on a daily basis.
1st iPad for me was iPad Air with the mute switch. Watching and writing this on iPhone 12 mini. First iPhone was 4 when sprint finally got the iPhone. Also got the iPad Pro 11 second Gen. the team who developed keyboard are geniuses who really worked very hard to make it work right.
The internet does not forget.... don’t talk bad about a product too soon. I still have iPad 1 rocking iOS 3 in mint condition.
iPad 2 was my first iPad. I instantly feel in love with it. Now I have two, iPad 11 inch and mini. There are amazing!
I owned the original iPad and loved it...there was something magical at the time when you could hold the internet in your hands and search until your hearts content. that being said i now own the new 10.2" and love it. These devices are a wonderful technology that will eventually replace the laptop when the OS catches up with the technology.
iPad 3rd gen was my first iPad. Ever since I haven’t really needed a computer with the exception of a few things
I remember back then, when people made jokes about the name and dismissing it as a huge iPhone.
Today many find it an indispensable part of their workflow.
I still think the name is a little silly, but so is Pixel and that hasn't stopped me from buying those. As a committed Android user I've had a Nexus 7 and Huawei Mediapad 8.4. I greatly prefer that general size, so when Apple refreshed the guts of the iPad Mini in 2019, I started digging into it, and finally pulled the trigger near the end of last year because small Android tablets are trash. I'm quite happy with my purchase, especially knowing it'll remain a good performing and updated piece of tech for a long time. I have an iPod Touch, and between using that and the 'Move to iOS ' android app setup was ridiculously easy.
The iPad was introduced 1 day before I was born
To Steve Jobs,
You are not forgotten.
happy 10 anniversary to iPad. ;)
In 2003 I was at uni as a mature student. I replied to a post on the Apple forum saying I wished Apple would make a tablet pc so I could carry it around campus and take notes in lectures etc more easily than with my (heavy) G4 iBook. A day or two later my post was deleted and I had an email from Apple telling me off for breaching the terms and conditions of the forum by discussing product development.
Yet when the iPad came out I saw it as a pricey gadget for people with more money than sense to watch video and play games. 🤦🏻♀️ Now on my second iPad, an 11” iPad Pro, I rarely fire up a computer at all. For an early adopter I was really slow. In my defence I was also skint and on strong pain meds!
I remember all the critics at the time laughing at the iPad and me being baffled by how short sighted they were. People forget how negative some reactions were.
Great video Rene - The iPad Pro is by far my favourite and most useful device. As an illustrator it is so much fun to use and well.....magical☺️👍
I got the first gen IPad from the refurbished store. I used it for almost 2 years before getting the 3rd generation refurbished store once again. We gave the first one to my wife’s special needs daughter and she loved it. I replaced it with the 3rd gen about a year ago. I just found out it died and now she went to an Android tablet.
We now have 2 fifth gen iPads and we love them. I’m thinking about replacing that android table with another iPad.
Watching on iPad Air 1 from 2013. Still a great media consumption device and battery life is holding up well. Looks very similar to my wife’s 2018 9.7” iPad apart from the lack of TouchID!
Where is the link for your original iPad review at 15:07?
10.5 2017 was my first. Looking forward to upgrading . Thanks for the history lesson👍
I use it pretty much every day for 6/7 hours a day for note taking in college, it's probably the best purchase I've ever made
iPad sales were once by over 10 million units but by now only about 43 milllions units sold in 2019. Was it really a succes and will it keep on in the future?
me until last year "i dont want it" 4 months with it as illustrator i love it, i still dont like many apple things tho, expensive shit XD
2018 12.9 + apple pencil, more than 1K usd here -_-
My 1st iPad was the iPad 2 64Go WiFi + 3G. I’ve named it : « My Precious ».
I switched to the apple ecosystem from android this year because of you, so excited...wish me luck!
My granny shares a birthday with a device. Happy birthday iPad and grandma
who is thicker
I waited to jump on the iPad bandwagon until they finally added multitasking (sort of) in the original IPad Air, which I kept until they launched the iPad Pro, and I have every one of those except the second generation 12.9 because it just didn’t add enough considering the cost and the fact that I was also using the smaller models beside it. It’s my primary computing device and I use whatever size seems to fit my current need.
14:24
holy cow!
first time I actually saw Flossy Carter's face. Admittedly he doesn't look like how he sounds.
So the iPad has had a 10 hour battery life for 10 years at this point 😂
NileshR12 because iPad is getting thinner, battery is getting smaller and cpu and more sensors and cameras require more battery. Think before you talk
Watching this now, from a hospital bed, on an iPad Air2, successor to my 1st iDevice, iPad 2, back in 2012.
Rene I just want to say that those glasses suit you a lot more than the old ones!
Wow Brian Tong interviewing iJustine
Real blast from the past!
Rene, I love you and your content. I have enjoyed your years of expertise contributing to Twit, and now I enjoy your videos. I feel compelled to tell you, however, that your movements on camera are a little too much. A little hand movement is understandable. Look at the interview footage of Apple employees in this video as examples. I hope this adds to your success, and look forward to future content!
Shout-out to Flossy Carter!
The original iPad was my first. Then, I bought the original iPad mini. Then the 9.7 iPad Pro. Then the 2018 iPad Pro and the iPad mini's 4 and 5. Yeah, I was hooked. I now have only the 2018 iPad Pro and the iPad mini 5. The others I either sold or traded in.
Even more interesting: the iPad may have helped accelerate the decline of physical print newspapers and magazines. And it may have extended the life of the comic book industry, thanks to the Comixology app.
Where d you get the footage?
iPad Mini was my first one. I got it when it was on sale for $199
i have had every ipad and the 11 inch is by far my favorite .... i will admit the ipad 1 was my first love the begining of my apple addiction
I will admit when this was first announced I thought it was stupid. Four iPads later, prized possession. I can’t live without my iPad Pro now.
Watching this on an iPad Pro
Never been so early for a Renee Ritchie video! 😁
Well done!
Black Cash that’s a pretty weird assumption. Lol
Great video !
I still have my original iPad that still works flawlessly with limitations now, of course along with several newer models up to the Air 2...
I’m waiting for my 2015 MacBook Pro to die before I switch to iPad Pro to replace it!
love ur vids Rene
Thank you!
I’ve had iPad from the beginning, I upgraded every time a new model came out and my favorite has to be my current iPad pro 2018 512gb cellular silver model. I am completely pc free, I don’t have a tv or a stereo anymore or any dvds cds or videos I do have some art books that I’ve kept but most everything in my tech arsenal is housed in the iPad pro, I love my Apple Pencil better than the crazy pencil of the previous model there are only 2 things that I want it to do to meet all my needs, the ability to send sms messages to non Apple users in the messages app and the ability to access the metadata of my photos in the photo app. I want to ne able to give every photo a specific name for organizing so Siri can bring up a photo by name instead of only sorted by date. One more thing I’d like all my mail on all my iOS devices to be synced with each other so if I delete an email on my iPad it deletes it on my phone as well.
I've had an iPad years ago and I don't use it. Am I the only one that doesn't see the purpose of it? I have an iMac, MacBook, Apple Watch and iPhone which all fit into my digital life and serve a purpose. To me the iPad doesn't make sense.
My 16 year old asked me why I didn't use iPhone, and I couldn't remember why I started using Android instead of iPhone then this video reminded me. Where I live, if you didn't have Verizon, you weren't going to make a phone call anywhere near home or work. If Apple had started with more carriers from the beginning, things may have been really different.
I swear I can listen to Rene for 40 minutes straight and still wonder why the video is so short. 🤷♂️
I have the original
iPad now I have the mini two
When the iPad came out i think that everyone thought it was just a big iPod touch, and was useless and dumb. But here i am in 2020 having retired my MacBook, and now using an iPad Pro with a keyboard attached in its place. Really crazy how ahead of their time apple was on certain things. When Steve Jobs said the iPhone was 5 years ahead of every other phone, he was almost exactly correct. Amazing we get to live in a world full of people capable of not only dreaming these things up, but having the brains and man power to create them for mass consumption.
My First: iPad2
And thanks for the ARM chip for making all this possible...
I used to think the ipad was just a big iphone.... til apps like lumafusion lightroom and photoshop came the ipad now had purpose...thanks to apple for not scrapping this product but improving it further
I've purchased every iPad after it gets a redesign. iPad 2, iPad air, iPad pro 12.9 (2018)
And everyone forgot how slow it was
holyshit! You got some weight since 2010!
Watching this on my iPad 6