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We saw our first iPad in a theater in Hollywood, California, in the
summer of 1968. It appeared in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey,
and the iPad (called a Newspad in the Arthur C. Clarke novel on
which the movie is based) made its debut when astronaut Dave
Bowman used it to view the news while having a horrific-looking
meal of puréed space food. We didn’t want any of that food, but
boy, did that Newspad look appetizing.
It took only 42 years (interesting number, 42) for the iPad to make
it from Hollywood to the Apple Store.
Even more entertaining than the movie were the consternation
and confusion among technology pundits when the iPad was
announced in 2010. Very few of them could figure out what the
device was for, and all too many of them were convinced that it
wouldn’t be popular.
Now we’re a year into the iPad era. The iPad has turned out to be
even more popular than even the most optimistic pundits
expected, and the public has had no problem figuring out what the
device is for. In fact, iPad owners have come up with ways to use it
that no one expected. (While we were writing this book, for
example, a new album recorded and mixed entirely on the iPad
went on sale in the iTunes Store.) |
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