Can an iPad finally replace a laptop in 2025?
The iPad has always occupied an odd limbo space in Apple’s product lineup. When Steve Jobs introduced the first model in 2010, it was positioned as something between a Mac and an iPhone, if probably closer to the latter. For a few years, Apple even emphasized the product’s usefulness as an e-reader, putting the Amazon Kindle in its crosshairs. Never mind that until the iPad mini, every model was too heavy to hold one-handed for more than a minute or two.
