iPad continues to dominate the tablet market in the United States

[iMore.com]

According to new data from Canalys, the iPad almost doubled the tablet shipments of its 2nd place competitor in the country last year.

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Apple using iOS as the roadmap to create IPadOS right out of the gate with the launch of iPad was an incredible wise business choice by Apple/Steve Jobs. Over a decade later the IPad still dominates because IPadOS and the ecosystem of apps established right from the start while competition lacked a specific tablet OS and app ecosystem specific to it.

 

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Apple using iOS as the roadmap to create IPadOS right out of the gate with the launch of iPad was an incredible wise business choice by Apple/Steve Jobs. Over a decade later the IPad still dominates because IPadOS and the ecosystem of apps established right from the start while competition lacked a specific tablet OS and app ecosystem specific to it.

If I remember rightly, Steve Jobs was not really in favour of the iPad ?

 

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I’ve never heard that. It may be true but I’m not aware either way. But by release time of the iPad SJ was definitely onboard. He saw it as making computing easy for the masses. He reportedly felt Windows and even Mac would never see full potential for the majority due to the complexity vs most people being uncomfortable with tech. Also, SJ had learned a valuable lesson from iPhone’s first release. It did not have a developer kit/app ecosystem. IPad release came with that critical developer kit to allow that app ecosystem. It made the IPad user experience excellent right out of the gate. IPad arguably was the greatest product roll out in Apple’s history and likely one of the best in history of consumer electronics.
Besides Rene Ritchie, a great YouTube channel to learn some of the Apple history is called AppleExplained.