What`s next for iPad, twelve years since its first unveiling?
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The iPad is something of an awkward pre-teen as it shakes loose its labels. As I sit at my desk typing words with my Magic Keyboard connected to my 12.9-inch iPad Pro, it`s hard to conceive quite how far the iPad has come in the last twelve years. When on January 27, 2010, Steve Jobs famously kicked back in an armchair on the stage of the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco to demo the first-gen iPad, it was amazing to see a computer that could be held in the palm of your hands. Though he was only merely flicking through photos, reading The New York Times, and firing off a quick email, the iPad represented a clear shift in the paradigm of computing as he made the case for a device larger than an iPhone yet more portable than a laptop. Though the twelfth anniversary of anything is rarely a headline maker — read our ten-year Secret Origins of iPad for something more special — it`s as good a time as any to revisit the iPad`s history, assess its present state, and pond...