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Originally Posted by afv011
And how is that relevant? Does the fact that they didn't sell that well mean they never existed and hence the iPad was the very first tablet ever created?
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Nobody's saying (AFAIK) that the iPad was "the first tablet"; it self-evidently was not. It wasn't even the first Apple tablet, if you consider the Newton to have been a tablet. What the iPad was, however, is the first tablet which was commercially successful. Rather than trying to make a tablet which was a poor substitute for a desktop or laptop computer, Apple realised that what their customers actually wanted was "an iPod Touch with a big screen", and that's really what an iPad is.