- History of the Apple iPad: The timeline of Apple’s tablet from then to now
Macintosh (1984)
The Mac was a triumph. The first mass-market computer with a graphical user interface and mouse, and it was specifically designed to be used by normal people.
Apple II (1977)
The first mass-produced Apple computer was released four years before the IBM PC and it was a huge hit.
PowerBook G4 12-inch (2003)
You can still see echoes of the G4 in today’s MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
iBook (1999)
The first iBooks took the candy designs of the iMac to produce what we think are the most fun laptops ever designed.
iMac (1998)
This is the computer that saved Apple, which was in the doldrums in the 1990s. Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive’s extraordinary iMac looked like nothing on Earth.
iPod (2001)
What made the iPod special was the way it worked, the way it felt, and the way it integrated with iTunes to make music purchasing effortless.
iTunes (2001)
iTunes began as a music management app and an easy way to rip music from CD to put it on your iPod, something record companies were furious about at the time.
macOS X (2001)
We tend to focus on Apple’s hardware products at the expense of its software, but Mac OS X (as it was called then; today it’s macOS X) was revolutionary.
Apple Store (2001)
We’ve had hardware. We’ve had software. We’ve had services. But Apple’s greatest hits also include its shops.
iPhone (2007)
This isn’t just Apple’s greatest hit. It’s the most successful consumer product of all time.
MacBook Air (2008)
The MacBook Air was the first tiny Apple laptop since the 12-inch PowerBook G4, and it was a triumph of engineering.
App Store (2008)
The iPhone was never supposed to have apps: you were expected to just bookmark web apps instead. But Apple quickly changed its mind.
iPad (2010)
nstead of trying to cram an entire PC into a tablet, which was Microsoft’s approach, Apple stuck with the same mobile OS as the iPhone.
