By
Achal Mehrotra
When
Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. spoke about the company's development
strategy way back in 1993, the vision was very simple. Apple's aim was to 'put
an incredibly great computer in a book that you can learn how to use in 20
minutes and carry around with you without having to hook up to anything and yet
be in communication with other computer users'. This is very much in keeping
with the rumors that the iPad design was on the drawing board much ahead of the
iPhone that saw its first release in 2007, fact that was later confirmed by
Jobs himself.
The
iPad is a line of tablet computers running on an iOS designed and marketed by
Apple. The first version of the iPad was released with much fanfare and
expectation in April 2010 followed by updated versions almost every year. It
was the first successful tablet computer that the world had ever laid eyes on!
Within the short span of six years, the market has been flooded with tablet
computers from major tech companies all having their fair share of public
interest. Select models of the iPad include cellular connectivity and built in
Wi-Fi; the user interface of the iPhone is built around a multi-touch screen
that includes a virtual keyboard. World over more than 300 million iPads have
been sold and it is second in sales revenues to the Android based tablets since
2014.
Just
as email revolutionized communication between people, the iPad has made people
rethink the way they work. The ease-of-use and 'on-the-move' features of latest
models have enabled professionals to plan, schedule, manage, draw, sketch,
design, paint and model their work depending on the requirement and time frame.
For example, an architect showing initial sketches or plans of a construction
design no longer needs to carry around cumbersome rolls of drawings and blue
prints when all he needs to do is put the whole thing down on the iPad and show
it off to a client. That's not all. Discussions, changes, additions and deletions
can all be recorded and carried out instantly without the need of confinement
to a location.
In
short, the iPad has become a workplace central to both professionals and
clients. A quick look at the advantages of an iPad over a laptop brings these
to mind.
•
The brand value and name of Apple
•
Portability
•
Less expensive
•
Light-weight
•
Low electricity consumption
The
iPad Pro released in 2016 and was immediately liked and critiqued equally by
customers. Ironically, the launch of the 12.9 inch tablet was quickly followed
by the announcement of a 9.7 inch iPad Pro launch to the dismay of many who had
acquired the 12.9 inch version. But a smaller screen-size does not always
upstage the larger version which has many pluses to its credit, chief among
them being the 4GB RAM as compared to the 2GB that the smaller version
provides. The other important factor in favor of the 12.9 is the faster
transfer speed.
Apple
has been facing stiff competition from other tablet makers like Acer, HP,
Lenovo and Samsung and the Windows 10 operating system has been gaining ground
over Apple's own iOS as well as the Android, so it's advisable to really have
all the facts in hand before getting down to buying a tablet. Interestingly,
Apple's General Counsel Bruce Sewell suffered a malfunction of his iPad Pro
while testifying at the US House Judiciary Committee hearing on the balance
between 'privacy and security' in the legal case that Apple is fighting against
the FBI which has asked Apple to unlock the phone of a shooter who killed 14
people in California last year. Though not a major fault and seemingly related
to the auto-lock timer on the device, it nevertheless outlined the fault at a
very important time. To
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