Era of iPads..
Posted by indrani at 2:53 PM
The ipad is a tablet computer designed and developed by Apple.It is particularly marketed as platform for audio and visual media such as books,periodicals,movies,music and games,as well as web content.The ipad runs the same operating system as earlier ipod touch and iphone.It can runs its own application as well as onesv developed for the iphone.At about 700 grams (25 ounces),its size and weight are between those of most contemporary smartphones and laptop computers.Apple realised ipad in April 2010 and sold 3 million devices within 80 days.
Apple’s first tablet computer was the Newton MessagePad 100 introduced in 1993, which led to the creation of the ARM6 processor core with Acorn Computers Apple also developed a prototype PowerBook Duo-based tablet, the PenLite, but in order to avoid hurting MessagePad sales did not sell it. Apple released several more Newton-based PDAs, and discontinued the last, the MessagePad 2100, in 1998.At last the iPad was announced on January 27, 2010 by Steve Jobs at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
The comes with differnt application,safari,mails,photos,videos, you tube,iPod,iTune,App store,iBooks,maps,notes,calenders,contacts and spotlight search.Several are improved versions of applications of the iPhone.
The iPad has an optional iBooks application that can be downloaded from the App Store, which displays books and other ePub-format content downloaded from the iBookstore.For the iPad launch on April 3, 2010, the iBookstore is available only in the United States. Several major book publishers including Penguin Books, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan have committed to publishing books for the iPad.
In February 2010, Condé Nast Publications said it would sell iPad subscriptions for its GQ, Vanity Fair and Wired magazines by June. In April 2010, The New York Times announced it will begin publishing daily on the iPad.
Major news organizations, such as The Wall Street Journal, BBC, and Reuters have released iPad applications, to varying degrees of success.
