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Originally Posted by HarryT
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.
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holymadness is implying tablets before the ipad were like a toy and looked nothing like the ipad. I debunked that.