When Apple launched the iPad earlier this year, it was the culmination of fans' long wait for the company to enter the tablet computer market. There's no doubt that Apple's iPad is a revolutionary computing device that's ushering in a new era of tablet computing.
But in 1979, an earlier generation of Apple users used a different kind of Apple tablet, back when the word meant something else entirely...
It's funny that the iPad was praised for its innovation when the tablet concept has been around for decades. Bill Gates was trying to get the concept to take off for years. He should have stripped out all the features and added an apple on the front.