History of ipad

iPad in the iPad Keyboard Dock

Apple re-entered the mobile-computing market in 2007 with the iPhone. Smaller than the iPad but featuring a camera and mobile phone, it pioneered the multitouch finger-sensitive touchscreen interface of Apple's iOS mobile operating system. By late 2009, the iPad's release had been rumored for several years. Such speculation mostly talked about "Apple's tablet"; specific names included iTablet and iSlate.^[22] 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.^[23][24]
Jobs later said Apple began developing the iPad before the iPhone,^[25][26][27] but temporarily shelved the effort upon realizing that its ideas would work just as well in a mobile phone.^[28]
Apple sold more than 15 million first generation iPads.^[7]