article_snippet.sent: Unlike the iPhone, which filled an already well-established need, there is no existing need the iPad fills.'
article_snippet.sent: Rhi Morgan at T3 magazine said: 'I can’t see anybody who needs a laptop buying an iPad, and I can’t see people using an iPad as a smartphone either.'
article_snippet.sent: the iPad was soon heralded as being the perfect mid-way device between a phone and a laptop.
article_snippet.sent: Considering, at the time in 2010, smartphones were still by and large finding smartphones feet, the iPad filled a gap in the market that many thought simply wasn’t there.
article_snippet.sent: The Horn, a technology blog for eCommerce site Gazelle, cited a number of areas that the iPad exceeded in.
article_snippet.sent: In education, the iPad found the iPad place as tablets were preferred to textbooks.
article_snippet.sent: And, according to The Horn, the iPad ‘altered (and possibly saved)
article_snippet.sent: But it seems the tide may be turning for the iPad.
article_snippet.sent: There are still flashes of life in Apple's iPad,’ Martyn Landi, Press Association Technology Correspondent, told MailOnline.
article_snippet.sent: All is not well for the iPad.
article_snippet.sent: The rise of new devices like the Apple Watch (left) and larger smartphones like the iPhone 6 Plus (right) mean the place for the iPad in today's market is becoming less obvious .
article_snippet.sent: iPads like consumers used to.
article_snippet.sent: The new MacBook is going to dent the iPad even further - that machine is like a Mac with an iPad engine, a real sofa-surfers' device.
article_snippet.sent: Apple won't let the iPad die though, so Apple fully expect an iPad Pro later this year’
article_snippet.sent: On whether Apple might consider discontinuing the iPad, though, he said hecan’t ever see that happening.
article_snippet.sent: With the release of smartphones with larger screens like the iPhone 6 Plus, and other devices like the Apple Watch, the place for the iPad today is becoming less obvious.
article_snippet.sent: Will they be celebrating the 10 anniversary of the iPad in 2020, though, and looking back on another successful five years?