Slow news day at the Verge obviously. These were a fairly big innovation before the iPad really matured around 2010 ish timeframe. The “second screen” niche was

Slow news day at the Verge obviously. These were a fairly big innovation before the iPad really matured around 2010 ish timeframe. The “second screen” niche was being carved out, where most people really just wanted a small device to browse the web and check email, for which these were perfectly adequate.