iPad One story

Computers have become nearly obsolete already though their faster counterparts were just launched. Tablets have rapidly taken their place. However, the iPad by Apple was the tablet to take the TABLET platform totally mainstream by introducing new ideas about the fluidic possibility of mobile computing.

I remember how we got our first iPad. It was 8 months from the U.S. Release but it wasn't made available in India then. We incidentally were in Dubai for our Diwali vacation and we grabbed it there 😂. We had to hunt a lot. In like 7 malls at 20 shops and we finally got our model.

One thing I can say about myself is that when I decide a specification about something, I don't let go of it easily. I've experienced this a million times and I think this is a good quality of mine. When I was getting an Android mobile in 9th, I had decided I wanted a phone with ICS, the then latest android os. Then, I fixed the phone and kept waiting till it hit India by even tracking its Spanish and Dutch release :D

When I was getting a cycle, I literally called the cycle dealers right across Maharashtra for that specific model and colour and we got it. For my first iPad, I wanted the 64GB Wifi + 3G variant and 3G wasn't even fully working in India back then in 2008 :D but yeah, I wanted that variant. It was the top of the line variant and we were wandering through shops just looking for that model. Thank god the iPad didn't have colour options else I would have been stubborn to grab that one too.

So that's how we got our first iPad. It changed my life. I was a computer(desktop Mac) addict. iPad made me change my style. It's convenience and form factor made me ditch the computer totally. And my father follow me too. He ditched his PowerBook and began delivering his conferences using the iPad. 

That was the iPad one. No camera. Just a pure tablet computer with Internet anywhere.

Then, for the next 4 years, we had no new iPad until dad decided to gift me a new iPad mini 1st gen ( as soon as it launched) for Christmas. I loved it. I somehow loved the new form factor. It was smaller but just right for me. It was perfect. It had two cameras and I had long wanted in my iPad since the iPad 2 that came right after we bought our first iPad shipped with two cameras.

But I didn't get to use the mini for long as i used it to set my dads office and iPad mini just fit the bill perfectly. So I got the iPad one back but Apple apparently had moved way ahead. They discontinued support for the iPad one and most developers followed suit. They stopped updates and existing apps began crashing too. It works even today and has a rock solid battery till date. So, I was iPad less but managing with a droid. 

But, just a month back, we decided to buy an iPad Air 2. Yes, finally after 4 years of waiting, we got a new iPad that was just the size of the one, but radically different. A million times better, literally. I don't regret I have it.

Thanks to my dad.

I'll review the device in my next post