Apple multinational company is the name of the company that has released first time in the history the famous iPad. iPad is the name of a line of tablet computers . The company Apple has made everything from designing to marketing. The year 2010 was an exceptional year for Apple, the first iPad was released in April 2010, and a huge number of 14,8 million exemplars of iPads were sold in 2010 worldwide. This number is 75 percentages of the tablet personal computer sales from the end on 2010.
First of all it was a platform for audio-visual media. The iPads size can vary between a regular smartphone and a normal laptop computer. The operating system which runs on the iPad is the same that runs on iPhones or iPods. Of course before releasing the first Apple iPad there were several prototypes for example the Newton MessagePad 100 releades back in 1993 and the MessagePad 2100 which was discontinued to produce in 1998. Before launching on the market the iPad there were several rumors about this new finger-sensitive interface with touchscreen.
Steve Jobs was the person who announced the first Apple iPad on the 27th of January, 2010 during an Apple press conference. The first iPad is a tablet pc with the iOS operating system. It has got rechargeable Li-Po batteries which guarantee 10 hours life without plugging them in. Its processor is called the Apple A4 1Ghz. You can store your content on flash memory of 16, 32 or 64 GB. It has got 256 MB DDR RAM. Its displayer is 1024x768px. It has got no camera built in. It has got wi-fi, Bluetooth connectivity. By buying an iPad you have online services such as: App Store, iTunes, iBookstore and others. Its dimensions are : 243 mm hight, 190 mm width, and 13 mm depth. The rumors and speculations about the new iPad had a very strong influence on costumers who wanted to buy the iPad. Costumers started pre-ordering iPads in the United States on the 12th of March, 2010. There were minor changes made from the announcement until the pre-order. Only the side switch was changed. In the same year, April, were released the versions Wi-Fi and the Wi-Fi + 3G.
Initially you could purchase the iPad online from the Apple Store. Nowadays you can buy the iPad from retailers like Verizon, AT&T, Amazon and others. After launching the iPad, it has been sold on the first day a record number of 300,000 exemplars. At the beginning you could buy iPads only in the U.S., then it was released in Australia, Ireland, Luxembourg and Mexico followed by The Netherlands and Sinagpore. An upgraded version of the first Apple iPad, the iPad 2 was presented to the public almost one year later on the 2nd of March, 2011. It is much more thinner and lighter than its predecessor. The iPad 2 has also got a better processor, called a dual core Apple A5 which conform statistics is twice as fast as the processor of the first iPad.