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iPad at 10: Some things never change

It was ‘a wholly new product’, a ‘futuristic gadget the likes of which we’ve never seen before’ that would somehow ‘soon be viewed with the same nostalgia-tinged contempt we have for the original iPod and iPhone’. After months of debate and speculation in the aftermath of its announcement, ten years ago this month the original iPad arrived and I got to review it.

Anniversaries are an opportunity to look back in time and ponder how much has changed. I’m happy to report that despite spending a bit too much time dwelling on how the iPad didn’t run Flash, my review from April 2010 does a pretty good job of encapsulating the potential of that original iPad – see . Re-reading that review today also reminds me that we’re still debating a lot of the same issues that the iPad brought up when it was introduced. The more things change, the

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