The iPad 10.9 is the Perfect iPad
Forget the iPad Pro
When the original iPad was unveiled by Steve Jobs in 2010, the Apple CEO positioned it as a ‘third category of device’: between a phone and a laptop. He presented seven things that such a device would need to be better at than a laptop or a smartphone to justify its existence: browsing the internet, email, photos, video, music, games and reading ebooks. Here is how Jobs pitched it in his keynote presentation:
It’s almost a decade a half on: things have changed. Processors have become more powerful; Apple sells four distinct lines of iPad, with five different display sizes (13, 12.9, 11, 10.9 and 7.9 inches respectively), multiple storage configurations and a range of colours. Despite this, the best device to do the things that the iPad was originally conceived to achieve best is not the iPad Pro: it’s the entry-level iPad 10.9inch.
Earlier this month, I purchased for my partner a new 10.9 iPad. Plain and vanilla. Not an iPad Air, nor an iPad Pro: just the basic, entry-level, 64GB iPad. It replaces a 6th generation iPad that I bought for her some years ago. She uses it daily for web surfing, watching videos, and the like. She’s on the…
