Amaya Toman In today's edition of our regular "historical" section, we will once again talk about Apple - this time in connection with the iPad, which today celebrates the anniversary of its first introduction. In addition to this event, we will briefly recall the day when telegrams were finally abolished in the United States.
It could be interest you
The End of Telegram (2006)
Western Union quietly stopped sending telegrams on January 27, 2006 - after 145 years. On the company's website that day, when users clicked on a section dedicated to sending telegrams, they were taken to a page where Western Union announced the end of the telegram era. "Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue its Telegram services," it said in a statement, in which the company further expressed its understanding for those who would be inconvenienced by the cancellation of the service. The gradual reduction in the frequency of sending telegrams started around the eighties, when people began to prefer classic phone calls. The final nail in Telegram's coffin was the worldwide spread of e-mail.
Introduction of the first iPad (2010)
On January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs introduced the first iPad from Apple. The first tablet from the workshop of the Cupertino company came at a time when small and light netbooks were experiencing a huge boom - but Steve Jobs did not want to go down this path, claiming that the future belonged to iPads. In the end it turned out that he was right, but the beginnings of the iPad were not easy. Shortly after its introduction, it was often ridiculed and its imminent demise predicted. But as soon as it got into the hands of the first reviewers and then users, it immediately won their favor. The development of the iPad dates back to 2004, with Steve Jobs having been interested in tablets for quite some time, although as recently as 2003 he claimed that Apple had no plans to release a tablet. The first iPad had dimensions of 243 x 190 x 13 mm and weighed 680 grams (Wi-Fi variant) or 730 grams (Wi-Fi + Cellular). Its 9,7″ multi-touch display had a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels and users had a choice of 16, 32 and 64 GB of storage. The first iPad was also equipped with an ambient light sensor, a three-axis accelerometer, or perhaps a digital compass and others.
Gallery
