who had made the switch to MacBooks and
iPads. With a new chip, impressive speakers, 12
hours of battery life and gorgeous design, the
first iPad Pro was branded a “replacement for a
notebook or a desktop for many, many people,”
and it worked. Though some criticized the
Pro’s operating system, which was clunky on
a larger display, Apple doubled-down on iPad
features on iOS.
The iPad went through several iterations in the
years that followed, with a smaller device in
2016 introducing a True Tone display designed
to be carried around for all-day use, and a
cheaper 9.7-inch iPad in 2017 that offered the
“guts of an iPad Air 2 into the body of a first-gen
iPad Air,” with a universal SIM slot, meaning the
iPad could work on any carrier.
Perhaps the biggest year in iPad’s history was
2018, with a new iPad that supported Apple
Pencil with an A10 Fusion processor, and a
pretty controversial marketing campaign
asking “What’s a computer?” At the time,
Apple was beginning to feel the heat from
Google, which had worked hard to build
Chrome OS and cheaper Chromebooks which
were now used in millions of classrooms
around the world. By lowering the iPad’s price
and adding classroom-focused features, https://
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showed it was time for a fight.
In the fall, Apple launched a stunning new iPad
pro, based off of the iPhone X design with no
bezels and no home button. Instead, the 10.5-
inch device supported Face ID and worked with
a second-generation Apple Pencil to transform
the way professionals made notes and edited