Apple got tablets right, and created a whole new market with the iPad 12 years ago today

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Apple started the whole thing with the Newton. 

A whole much of crap followed. Palm pilots snd pocket PCs. All sucked. 

Then the Amazon kindle came out and was decent at one thing only: reading ebooks. But it too sucked with clunky hardware and nasty looking screens. 

Prior to that, years of rumors said that Apple was looking to revive the Newton. 

Then the iPhone came out snd reinvented the smartphone. 

That has the prerequisite tech to fuel a true Newton follow up with multitouch screen tech. Boom. The iPad was born. 

Many copycats followed but they all sucked and failed in comparison. 

The iPad rules the segment.