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The iPad popularized the Tablet market, it didn't create it. Tablets have existed since 2000.

• jawee 16y ago
  Although not a tablet in the current sense, I´ve been happily using my Maemo-powered ¨Internet Tablet¨ since before Apple made touchscreens.
  • seabee 16y ago
    The problem is tablet PCs, Nokia Internet Tablets and iPads are all different concepts of a 'tablet', confusingly called the same thing. Compare to Macs and PCs which are both clearly 'personal computers'.
• zephyrfalcon 16y ago
  Technically yes, but they were all considered failures. I recall that before it became clear what Apple was making (somewhere late 2009), there was a lot of speculation along the lines of, "well it can't possibly be a tablet PC, because nobody has ever had success with that".
• foljs 16y ago
  Creating a market equals popularizing it. A market of 10 people is not much of a market at all.
  • _delirium 16y ago
    It wasn't a huge market, but it wasn't trivial either. The numbers I can find are around $1.5 billion/year sales in the mid-2000s.