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Apple released the first iPad in April 2010, and sold 3 million in only 80 days. During 2010, Apple sold 14.8 million iPads worlwide, representing 75% of tablets PC sales at the end of 2010. iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple. The iPad was announced on January 27,2010, by Steve Jobs at an Apple press conference at the Yerba Buena Center for th Arts in San Francisco.  iPad primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, applications and web content. Its size and weight fall between those of contemporary Smartphones an laptop computers. The iPad runs in iOS operating system, that same used by Apples's product such as iPod Touch and iPhone and can run its own application as well as iPhone applications. The iPad is controlled by a multitouch display- a departure from most previous tablet computer, which used a pressure- triggered stylus- as well as a virtual onscreen keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard . The iPad uses a Wi-Fi connection to access local area network and also the internet.

BEFORE THE iPad's LAUNCH
Apple re-entered the mobile- computing markets in 2007 with the iPhone. Smaller than 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. The actual name is reportedly a homage to the Star Trek PADD, a fictional device very similar in appearance to the iPad. Jobs later said that Apple began developing the iPad before the iPhone, but temporarily shelved the effort upon realizing that its ideas would work just as well in a mobile phone. The iPad's internal codename was K48, which was revealed in the court case surrounding leaking of iPad information before launch.

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