"""Why are people stuck in this mindset that Apple invented the tablet?""" No, people believe something different. That Apple invented the first tablet that ev

"""Why are people stuck in this mindset that Apple invented the tablet?""" No, people believe something different. That Apple invented the first tablet that ever sold in numbers, worked well and millions of people actually wanted to buy (and did so). """All of these are roughly the shape and size of an iPad. Apple just applied their standard solid-colored plastic design to it.""" Yeah, that must be it. That's how one of the most, if not the most, decorated and awarded industrial designer in the world (Jonathan Ives) works. You're taking armchair criticism to a whole other level. """Even the iPhone. Palm had something that looked exactly like an iPhone in early 2000s. I remember my dad having one and giving it to me when it "broke". In fact, I think it only had one button on it.""" Yeah. And a stylus. And a totally different UI. And for some mysterious reason, all the smartphones available on 2006 from other vendors were totally different that those made after the iPhone's introduction. """Apple: get over yourselves. If you're so /innovative/ then show us.""" Yeah Apple, show us. You think just (a) putting a UNIX OS, with a terminal, bash et al, in the desktops of tens of millions of people, (b) changing the mp3 player industry (c) creating the top music store in the US and ruling digital music sales (d) entering a totally unknown market to you, capturing 70% of smartphone profits, changing the smartphone industry, and changing the basic design and UI of smartphones afterwards (e) making a huge tablet market from a tiny niche it was, with competitors after 3 years still selling 1/10 of the devices you do (f) creating a huge marketplace for 300,000+ extremely powerful online smartphone apps, and being again copied by Google, MS and Nokia in that too, while also getting like 2 billion app sales... will convince anyone that you are innovating? Come on...