By: iPadfanzz staff on January 14, 2013
Three years ago, Apple introduced the first-generation of iPad for the customers.
"iPad is something completely new," Apple CEO Steve Jobs had said at that time. "We're excited for customers to get their hands on this magical and revolutionary product and connect with their apps and content in a more intimate, intuitive and fun way than ever before."
The tablet took the market by storm. The device could do everything for you: “Ranging from writing and reading emails, downloading a book to read, watching a video or a movie, play mobile apps, prepare assignment for the college, and a lot of similar stuff." You could take the tablet everywhere with you, be it bed, office or some outdoor place. The simplicity of the interface and the battery life were some of the key features that readily attracted the consumers towards the tablet. In fact, it meant for all ages, be it adult, college students or a toddler, everyone loved and soon became master at using the device.
Just like the TV killed off the radio, the CD killed off the audio cassette. The Internet too also rendered many things senseless which we used earlier. And so is the case with the iPad that has killed a lot of stuff.
Here we take a look at top 5 things that the computing device killed.
1. Road Maps
The start of Google Maps spelled doom for the road maps – thus ending the days of a big paper road map which takes up too much of opening and closing. Now everyone millions of iPhone or iPad users suddenly leave their homes without getting either lost or cross. Digital maps leave little or no room for error. However, they suppress our urge to experiment.
2. Netbook
Small, lightweight and inexpensive laptop computers are now replaced by the iPad. Acer and Asus, the two remaining top-tier manufacturers of the small laptops, are ceasing netbook production today, reports the Guardian’s Charles Arthur. The onset of the tablet market began the end of netbooks. These completely different products in form factor, design, operating systems, and supported applications, lessened the need to go for small computing device that were also a hassle to carry.
3. PSP, DS.
The iPad also proved useful than many handheld devices because of its portability. You can play games while on metro or waiting for the bus, or just having a coffee in the campus area. With the iPad one don’t need to shell out $30-50 for a dopey game title rather you can download $1-$3 game that will be quite engaging from major big gaming publishers. These games are big, entertaining and compelling.
4. Textbooks
Nowadays who really want to read a paperbook when the e-book is readily available? The e-book offers you easy readability and doesn’t require space to consume. Also it’s not so painful to mark up annotations. The e-books also add all manner of new interactive and video features, making the reading a really good experience. Although papers books are not really out of fashion, in a digital era, educational content is taking a whole new meaning.
5. Stack of papers and entertainment systems
You don’ need to take Xerox copies of documents that you’ll only glance at once. The iPad also replaced papers in a lot of hospitals, airplane, offices, clinics, various office vehicles, and similar other places where there is requirement of paper. Now is the world of digital documents. Companies are already ordering fleets of iPads, so that they can reduce the paperwork. The same is the case with music entertainment systems as one doesn’t need to carry tapes or CDs with them as they can now carry the computer tablet with them wherever they go.
