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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by epmatsw on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @04:20PM (#10194270)
"No wifi, less space than a Nomad. Lame."
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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by lotharbot on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @06:52PM (#10195184)
in 2001, it was.

Check out the sales figures [0]. Consumers didn't begin to adopt the iPod in detectable numbers until the third generation (when it got USB syncing), and it didn't really take off until the fourth (full USB connectivity, various other improvements.)

[0] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/28/ipod-sales_n_468000...

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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by etchalon on Thursday September 10, 2015 @01:19AM (#10196246)
It look off when they added Windows. Other improvements aside, that was the thing that cracked open the market for them.
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Re:Apple Unveils the iPad Pro by MagnumOpus on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @06:07PM (#10194968)
Yup. It was. And no USB either, also not usable with Windows, not usable without Firewire. It was utterly useless for 99% of people out there - Rob Malda was right, despite all the retconning. It took years and several hardware generations to actually fix all these problems...
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