The Idea of tablet computers with the touch screen has been offered by students University of Illinois at competition « What there will be a personal computer of 2000 », lead by corporation Apple in 1988.
- Steve Jobs at conference D: All Things Digital (English) 2010, spent Wall Street Journal, has declared superiority of idea of a tablet above the idea which has appeared from it later of phone (iPhone).
- Steve Jobs: I’ll actually tell you kind of a secret. I actually started on a tablet first. I had this idea of being able to get rid of the keyboard, type on a multitouch glass display. And I asked our folks could we come up with a multiouch glass display. That I... we can type on it, rest my hands on and actually type on it. And about six months later, they called me in and showed me this prototype display. And I gave it to one of our other really brilliant UI folks. And he called me back few weeks later and he had inertial scrolling working. When I saw the rubber band, inertial scrolling and few the other things, I thought, ‘my God, we can build a phone out of this!’ And I put the tablet project on the shelf. Because the phone was more important. And we went to work the next several years on the iPhone.
- In the first days after release айпэда, some mass-media and the Internet-forums began to criticize the name «iPad», marking its similarity with a word «pad», to the general name of hygienic linings. Wired News has informed, that some women because of it less will buy willingly a product.
- Soon after announcement of the beginning of sales хэштег «iTampon» became the second among the most discussed subject matters in social network Twitter. It is necessary to notice, that the ruler of computers Lenovo ThinkPad/IdeaPad has not caused a similar public resonance.
- According to Steve Jobs in the first day it has been sold about 300 thousand iPad, скачано 250 thousand books and about 1 million appendices.
- Meaningful boundary in 1 million sold computers iPad will reach, under the application of the head of the company, for 28 days — the period, more than twice shorter appropriating for iPhone (74 days).
- According to advertising agency AdMob of 16 % of today's users iPhone plan to get iPad within six months.
- According to the analysis lead by experts of the company iSuppli, pure cost of manufacture of WiFi-models iPad the various configuration, including expenses for components and assembly of an arrangement, колеблется from $259.60 up to $348.10 (from minimal up to the maximal configuration accordingly). It is more, than it supposed earlier on tentative estimations.
- The most dear components of an arrangement are the display (25.9 % of pure cost) and the touch screen (12 % of pure cost).
- On April, 14th, 2010 on a site of company Apple the message has been published: « Having collided with unexpected a great demand in the USA, we are compelled to make the uneasy decision: the beginning of sales iPad outside the USA is transferred for a month — up to the end of May.
- We shall declare the prices iPad for the different countries, as well as we shall begin reception of advanced orders outside the
- We realize, that our foreign clients who wait for a possibility to get iPad, will be upset by this news, however we hope, that them the reason for a delay — a little will calm unknown success iPad in the USA. » iPad has appeared at Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in the spring of 2010 when official sales in
- Some online medias and online-services soon after occurrence of a tablet have begun development of special supplements for iPad and the versions of the sites optimized specially under it. For example, on such way the American magazine " Time " which has developed the whole concept of the iPad-version has gone.
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