Using the Original iPad 10 Years Later!
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- čas přidán 26. 01. 2020
- On January, 27, 2010 Steve Jobs took the stage to announce his last groundbreaking new product, the iPad. 10 years later I take a look at the original iPad and compare it against Apple's most advanced modern iPad, the iPad Pro to see what has changed and what has stayed the same.
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Who here was around when that old CZcams icon was still using ?
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@@GregsGadgets I sure haven't I laughed a little saying what the heck is that
I wasn't a technology fan back then hehe
Hillson Gaming 😂 no worries. I think most people would be confused looking at it today.
@@GregsGadgets lol yup 🤣
Cant wait for 2030 where the current new ipad pro would be Thick and Ancient
Haha i can’t even imagine that 🤯
Thicc
we could use that as knife
Rick Khan and bend that like a paper
😂 😂
Hanzala Iqbal the thinner and weaker the material is, the more vulnerable it is to bending.
my ipad 2 just passed away recently 😪
😢 it served with honor.
Mine too 😭💔
I'm still using it
Mines still ballin out😎
But rip it won’t be forgotten 😕
my iPad 4 is having a heart disease..
I don't think the surgery will go well.
The iPad works amazingly the box came a little dirty, czcams.com/users/postUgkxUGaHtKW8MwCql2fPyIm9-ftTqSMzKFFA no plastic wrap, but the box was sealed and had everything else in the box along with the wrapping, the iPad itself is gorgeous, I got the yellow 64g game storage is good for me along with Socials and school stuff. No scratches or marks came with the charger and box fast speed, and if you are buying a pen get the 1st gen don’t make the mistake I did !!
I just wanted to play Minecraft on that 10 year old iPad good ol'days
Lmaoo meeee
I can I downloaded it when apple id was still working I can play Minecraft 0.16.3 update
KillyKitten pffft that’s it, should be something like 0.6.0 or 0.7.0
Yesss my first ever Minecraft world was on it
Minecraft was free then good old days :c
I can’t wait for the day where the thickness of paper would be considered too thick for an iPad
If it was made out of glass of steel it would cut your hands lol
Prazilex true. true. Good point 👌
* rips *
Luke Staten an oiled screen with a touch panel underneath.
I mean oled stupid autocorrect
"Twice the Thiccness." That's what got me.
Thicc
GregsGadgets ur a pretty underrated yt channel
Thanks!
GregsGadgets np
think different...
Why did you keep referring to the original iPad as “the original iPad Pro”?
Just my brain getting jumbled lol.
GregsGadgets haha ok. I am new to the channel and didn’t know if it was an inside joke. 🤣. Great video, nonetheless.
Thank you 🙏 No just an honest mistake on my part when having to talk about both products lol.
Tom Small To compare duuu
@Apple Fan boy Fan lol did you not read the other replies?
iPad Pro: Who are you?
iPad: I am you, but older
🥶🥵🥺
Cold hot uwu
Ipad1 : i am your great great great great great great great great great great grandfather
cringe comment
7:17 You can sing in with 2 Factor-Authentication by just entering the password a second time and adding the 2 Factor pin right to the end of the password
Good call!
Amazing miscellaneous fact !!
Oh wow, that opens my eyes
I don't wanna sing my 2 Factor Authentication, that would make a horrible song
I remember having this and enjoying all kinds of games like it was yesterday 😓 Now I’m with the IPad Pro 2018. Time flies so fast. Damn, this video game me so much nostalgia. I remember my whole family had to share 1 iPad. Good old times.
Hard to believe it’s 10 years old already.
Time certainly does fly
I was 19
@Cosmickiller 108ツ I was 4... I remember my family had one of these. I had to share it with my parents and my little sister until we got our own iPad Minis a few years later
I was 3
@Cosmickiller 2008ツ well I wasnt even born
My dad still uses his ancient first gen iPad while recently purchasing the newest iPad Pro for me. He adores it too much to throw it away. He got it immediately when it was released in my country, and I remember when it was still new, trendy, and fascinating. Can’t believe it’s been 10 years since then.
Sad to see that today‘s imac‘s bezels look just like the ones on the first ever ipad... :/
Seven V yes you’re probably right. But the imac‘s bezels though... :D you wouldnt hold the imac up like the ipad would you? Haha
iMacs look the same today as they did 10 years ago (at least from the front)
Why? The bezels give you contrast against the background so you the corners of the actual display area are usable
@@SiggiflyCoffee wwdc 2020
@@sebulban -_-
2010 iPad: Small Screen With One Button
2020 iPad: Larger Screen With No Button
this makes me change my aspect on life
_Laughs in iPad 2 that I've been using for 6 years and still, somehow works._
I've been using ipad 2 for 8 years and now it's broken. Rip
*Laughs in ipad mini 2 that came out almost 7 years ago that still work perfectly fine*
SimplygachaSTUDIOS “laughs in mini 1”
•sno̷wyfall• me too, mine doesn’t lag and still works perfectly☺️
ipad 3 for me
i remember how the calendar app animation blowed my mind back then. the paper moved accordingly where you touched it. best eye candy for me
I’ve only just recently got my first iPad. The 10.2 iPad. So far I love it!
Who else is watching on an iPad 😂
Ipad 1 😭😅😅
iPhone
macbook
Me!
Me XD
I kinda miss the old thick bezels on modern tablets. They’re still really useful for hand placement.
Fr I keep clicking off things and messing with what I’m doing
I feel like you should have done the original iPad vs the 7th gen ipad
I still remember playing temple run in the old iPad. Good times.
I actually play temple run in the original iPad :’)
Omg when I saw that old app store and that old CZcams icon, nostalgia hit me SO hard. I remember playing Minecraft every day on it😭
I liked skeuomorphism... The icons and the overall UI was looking so amazing! There was so much detail in everything, that you just couldn’t overlook! Now everything is flat and simple... Not saying iOS is looking bad, it looks beautiful and for sure it is nicer than other OSs, and it has the best animations and physics feel, but when seeing all those modern flat icons and UI elements they make me think I just simply recreate them in photoshop myself... there isn’t any detail to appreciate...
Skeuomorphism made the devices feel more magical I think. They felt like you holding a physical object that indeed could be transformed into anything you wanted, from a real notepad to a real agenda to a real calendar etc! On the other hand, the flat design feels more like just “icons” and “lines” on a display, nothing less nothing more.
I recently got 2 iPods and an iPad with iOS 4-6, it really is as magical as I remember.
People in 2030: Omg can u imagine the ipads in 2020 was so thick and see today it's just 0.1 mm
You *can* sign into your Apple ID. Just type the 2FA code right after the password.
Mac33 what’s a 2FA code?
2-Factor Authentication
I don't remember my password i got it 2 years ago
@@suzi7584 I don't remember my password from 39 years ago
I still use my 1st gen iPad as a digital photo frame - works great for that especially with the photo frame feature on the lockscreen which Apple annoyingly removed from later iOS versions
Watching this on an ipad 2, I still like to use it :D I also have a 12.9" pro and I will have to disagree with your last statement, I do believe that the modern ipad pro with ipados embodies what the original vision for the ipad is, It sits right in the middle between my phone and macbook, I have apps on it that I use also on my phone like tinder,spotify,shazam,youtube etc and I also use it as a laptop replacement with its desktop like feautres. And as a music production tool to complement my music production. With this my macbook pro has become a music making tool only :)
Hello im watching this on a ipad original and im too broke to buy a new one and im stuck at ios 4 :)
Why are you reading this not ios5?
That’s dedication. I have an iPad 3 (2012) and I’ve just given up on it.
DOWNLOAD MUSICALLY AND VINE
It’ll prob sell for alot
You know Why im reading this BECUASE of nostalgia smells good
4:19 where did you find that wallpaper it’s so nice!
It’s one of the defaults
Kaius Vun Vlogs nobody cares
ShowyMC
Commit not breathing
Please tell me how to download it
This was really great. Took me right back to those early ipad days. What memories, what excitement!
The original iPad was actually my main driver for a long time. It wasn’t easy back then. I had to use a lot of work arounds, such as a third party browser just to be able to download or upload anything, but somehow I made it work for the most part.
I remember when the ipad 1 first came out and told my self, “know i will never ever will own one cause its too expensive”, but here i am with an iPad Pro 12.9 inch. Ah if past me sees me now.
8:15 You have AMAZING handwriting! I've never seen such beautiful inking before!
as far as the two factor authentication, they actually did a workaround for older devices, when it prompts you to put in the password, you put in the password, immediately followed by the two factor code, and it'll let you sign in
It may be hard to believe, but I still prefer the look of pre-iOS 7. It had a lot of character to me and felt welcoming to use. If I was presented the option to change the look and feel of iOS back to 6 but keep all the new features, I’d use it in a heartbeat! And I’m among the younger crowd too.
Amazes me how well it aged honestly compared to other tablet devices like the Motorola Zoom
My iPad mini 1 just passed. 😢
It served a great 7 years.
F
I have the iPad 1st Gen.
Recently it passed away. It served for many years. Throughout my time I used to use this iPad.
I gave my dad my iPad 1 about 8-9 years ago, he is still using it to this day for his square register. Battery is still holding up and cellular connection still working.
To sing in you must write the code next to the password.
(Without any space in between)
I haven’t heard of this channel til today. I’m liking this video a lot though. Great work!
Thank you 🙏 I appreciate that!
I got the original iPad when I was in 8th grade for Christmas. This was the best darn thing ever at the time. It was like my iPod touch 2nd gen but huge and I loved playing World At War Zombies and other classic iOS games
Your audio-script has context related general information as well. Real hard work, you deserve more subs.
Love this review... I will have to dig my old 1st gen iPad out of the archives lol, I don't think mine even powers on though. Lol. Thanks for sharing Greg.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching 🙏
I have a perfect condition original iPad silver 64 gig mine powers on but it’s hooked up to my old laptop that is broken sooooo oof
4:03 “Cameras? Not existent on the original iPad Pro” oof you mean iPad not iPad pro
Yeah sorry. Lol
I didn’t even notice it.
@@GregsGadgets u called the iPad the iPad pro way more than 1 time and great video
6:36 how does the old CZcams app work for you?? i also have an original iPad but it has said “cannot connect to CZcams” for many years
I had the orignial iPad. I was in college at the time and honestly it was a game-changer. I used it along with a bluetooth Apple Wireless keyboard as my laptop to take to classes, take notes, and I could even use the college's software for downloading e-textbooks and uploading course work for professors. Grant it, that software did work better for laptops but the fact that it was compatible and ran relatively smoothly on a first-gen iPad was incredible. And yeah the device is heavy by today's iPad standards but at the time, it was so late even with the keyboard. And the fact that I could get most of my textbooks as e-textbooks meant I was carrying around a lot less on campus than my peers and my back definitely thanked me for it. Would I want to use an original iPad in 2020? No, I love my 12.9" iPad Pro with Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard Folio. But it's amazing that the iPad really was always a device that could replace or at least provide an alternative to a full computer. I really think the sky is the limit with iPads, and even then they'll likely go beyond that.
I remembered using this in CS class when I was in 3rd grade, fruit ninja was the good shit back then
⬛ Thanks for this video.
Entertaining and good information.
✔ ( 1st October 2022 )
I was using my 2011 iPad until one month ago, when it finally crashed 🙂 RIP you have served me well sir. Now I have the mini 2.
My 1st iPad was the original Mini and my 2nd is the Mini 5. I love the form factor. I put it in my bike bag and cycle to a coffee shop to read and relax. I also can do pretty everything I need to do on vacation with it so I travel with it. I did just recently compliment the Mini with a bigger tablet, a Microsoft Surface Pro. I love that it’s a full computer and a tablet, not has good a tablet as an iPad, but way closer than you would think.
I love the stand-by battery life on my iPads. I can leave them on for a week with minimal battery drain... Much better than any Android device
Cam Woo i own ipad pro, surface pro 7 and samsung galaxy tab s6,
Tab s6 holds up much better than the other two
Ipad pro is shit compared to my samsung tab s6 😂
@@jerrysav3571 ikr
@@jerrysav3571 Not agreed in software part. Samsung doesn't support my any phone even for 1 Android update. My rich friend also told me that he has samsung s8 and he has oreo while mine has Android pie. I dislike that they just forget old phones and end support. Apple better support for 5 years on both software and hardware part.
Problem is they have tooo many products and comfusing. S10, then s10e, s10 plus, s10 pro whatever. It's very confusing. And worst is they use exynos in budget phones. I got my realme 3 pro with Snapdragon 710 for $185. While Samsung offers extremely slow compares to this with lower quality camera for $250.
I just want them to create few products but selected and higher quality. More quantity = less quality
@@jerrysav3571 I even owned samsung grand neo, core prime, grand, grand 2, j2, j7 nxt, j 8. They just get slow and sluggish after a year. I used Lenovo also good thing is it's still same fast as on it's first day.
They need to change their exynos processor to Snapdragon or Mediatek.
I think Jobs’ car/truck metaphor was spot on. I use my iPad for just about everything but when I need a bit more power (video editing etc) I use my Mac
Yup I agree, and most consumers don’t even need a Mac anymore.
@@GregsGadgets I bought the first two iPads and then the 6th Gen version. The 6th Gen version hasn't been used or touched in a couple of months since I bought an iPhone 11 Pro Max which I use for email, messages, and reading books, and it is always in my pocket. The iPad has a bigger screen but I don't like to watch video on it or carry it around and the phone is unobtrusive and always there with cellular connectivity.
I almost always want to use my computer for banking, videos, books, and serious email and web browsing such as comparing multiple web sites to order stuff online. I prefer the exactitude of a mouse and keyboard to the finger keyboard and external mouse of an iPad.
I could buy a $2,500 iPad Pro including cellular radio, Pencil and Keyboard, but for $2,500 I could also buy two pretty good laptops or one very good laptop.
It seems to me that I am almost always a phone and computer kind of person. As good as an expensive iPad is, it doesn't compare to either a good phone or a sort of good laptop, let alone a powerful desktop.
Your needs and likes may vary.
Very informative!
10 years. Seeing Steve in that keynote, it feels like 50 years he’s been gone 😢
The newest iPad is 7th generation made in 2019 I’m using it now and the 7 has a home button and a headphone jack brought back
The MINI iPads have a home button and a headphone jack. The PRO iPads don’t.
Yes they do my friend has an iPad mini 5 it has home button and headphone jack just like you said
... and everyone is going “only OG’s remember home buttons” but like the newest iPad... the iPad 7 has a ho,e button and a headphone jack lolololol
you accidentally called the original 2010 iPad the "iPad Pro" like 3 times XD
Omg I have an iPad 4th gen. My parents bought it for me on my 14 birthday. This feb they bought me the 10.2” iPad budget, and I give the old one to them for watching videos and Netflix. This video brings me so much memories, I feel the nostalgia with the design and the icons.
2009 I was graduating high school. Crazy to think how outdated tech from those days are now.
Love love love this review .. always wanted to see one ... I never used an iPad before .. i use android tablets ... I am now on the hunt of an iPad but can't find any in my country
Which Ipad would you prefer air or pro?
@@User2100 pro ... I just got the 2017 pro and I'm in love ❤
Loving the subtle DBZ fandom lol 😂👏🏻
😂 thank you 🙏
Nice video! Made me just pick up my old 2010 iPad (and first recharge it for a loooooong time). Lots of blue stains on the back, caused by that wrap-around Apple cover that was sold separately at the time, Apple logo still faintly visible … inspiring, thanks for this!
Nice job man, great video
"what we now know as the iPad?" It's been called that from the beginning
PLEASE TELL ME WHERE YOU GOT THIS SHIRT!!! I’m a collector of Dragon Ball shirts & I need to know.
Uniqlo. Their shirts are always great 👍
GregsGadgets YESSS!!! I have the pink Frieza shirt, the gray Goku + Frieza one, and the “THE END” shirt from them. Makes sense.
Watching this, from my iPad Pro. Great stuff!
I still use a first-gen iPad - I’ve tried to talk myself into upgrading but since all I do is view PDFs of chord charts and occasionally sheet music and it does that perfectly I haven’t been able to find a good enough reason. My dad’s stuck on a second-gen for the same reason.
If they bring Xcode to the next iPad I wouldn’t need any laptop.
Also, the iPad Pro without a keyboard is still that magical piece of glass.
My iPad glass is so magical if you drop a coin it turns into a maze
Man...the yellow legal pad? The page corner turn up? 💗💗💗
Right? Strangely pleasing.
I still have mine. It's the only iPad I've ever owned
I just turned on my iPad 1 last week and gave it to my four year old son and he loves it. Thanks for making this interesting and informative video
I was 12 years old when the original iPad came out and it was the first device I truly could call mine. I’ve still got it to this day and have been really considering buying a new one 🙌🏻
Get IPad 2020 released already 😤
😂
GregsGadgets the 2018 PRO still amazing. Don’t expect much this year
Alpha i know but it would suck if you buy expensive tablet and get the newer released with similar price
Not everyone got the money to buy the new ipad
I love all iPads they are my favorite tech device in the world I’m using the 7th gen to write this comment and I love it😍
Tina Ingersoll I love mine I have a 6th gen and my family is more of a family to by used ones but I got a brand new one last year for my bday and it’s actually amazing
I have the 5th gen and i still love it
Me too. I’ve had almost every iPad until the latest 11 inch. I use it so much ❤️
Lol I’m using iPad 7th generation too
CANDY CLOUD lol that iPad is ass compared to my 11 inch iPad pro😂
Love that page turning
Never gets dull
How did you get CZcams working?! I have the same iPod 1, both the built-in and the AppStore app don't work, even I jail broke it and installed Tubefix.
I broke my original iPad 4 years ago nice memories
My iPad air 2 is dying :(
You have to write the code after your password the connect to iCloud (iPad 1 casual user here)
Oh really? I need to test that out!
GregsGadgets yeah you write your password than it send a code and than you write it again with the code next to it and there you go!
I remember thinking the critics were right. Who would want a gigantic iPod touch? Then a friend got one and I still remember the first time I used it. My mind was blown away. Browsing the web with it really felt like a thing coming straight from the future. Photos was equally amazing.
I remember thinking my uncle was the coolest person in the world because he had an iPad straight out of a sci-fi movie that I could play (very simple) games on 😅
I remember accidentally breaking my ipad when i was 4 lol
Great video, nice to look back in time.
Thank you 🙏 Glad you enjoyed it.
What I love is the way they ‘Think’ how ipad interface could be: to :What ‘Be’ ipad interface... so appreciated my ipad more today then 2019... and surely more last quarter 2020
When I was born my mom bought the original iPad for me and my sister. It was 2010 then. I used to remember having so much fun on that thing. When I was 5 I could even turn it on and control it myself. That thing was what started being obsessed with devices with apps like instagram and TikTok. Soon, the iPad was just too old and sorts of new Apple devices were coming out. We decided to recycle the iPad..though I wish we didn’t because I would be able to look at it now and say “what a weird device”. This video brought back lots of good and bad memories for me. And I thank you for that. Keep up the good work!!
I miss skeuomorphism... Love iOS 6!
Lol I hate skeuomorphism
Parker Wilkins same
👎
@@thestraw8271 finally someone agrees!
I miss it! I was pissed when they changed it!
I would gladly return to "skeuomorphic" design.
I miss iOS6. The flat design that came with iOS7 was originally hard for me to swallow.
@@Whobilly For me too. And it was so slow. I wonder how fast would iOS be today if they didn't broke it.
no way would i do that
I honestly prefer the modern Flat design over the old iOS 6 design, but I personally think it would be cool if a setting existed to chose which theme you want to use.
It’s a very un-Apple solution and it would never realistically exist but it’s nice to think about.
I dont like skeupmorphism
So much nostalgia from the first iPad
I’m watching this on a 256 iPad Pro and I love it. I’ve always had iPads and I hope in the future I will never change
I’d rather have thickness of 1st gen iPad than having one of those new iPads that are so thin that they come from the factory with a bend
Elgars Stupāns stop with the bent complains you clearly don’t have one
Elgars Stupāns and a much larger battery
iPad Mini 4 FTW!!!!
👍
I used an iPad 2 in middle school since the school provided one for all students to carry on the campus. It was obviously used as an educational tool and i really wanted to get one outside of school. Now i own the 2018 iPad Pro and it’s getting me through college. This video brought back some memories.
I used to love the giggle bubble SpongeBobs game, and the tortoise and the hair, putting it into gibberish mode on iOS 3 to 6...
2:38 DUMMY THICC
How did you get the CZcams app to work on the original iPad that’s the real mystery?
No clue! I was shocked too.
I was a kid then but I remember vividly it was a simple, clean interfaced streaming player with a search function and a ''favorites'' that were your channels. Looked awesome actually and worked flawlessly with WiFi.. and no ads, no interruptions, no BS. Paradise video watching! Now its unbearable. Fortunately unlike my dad that has always been an Apple freak, I never jumped on that stupid bandwagon and have had Android since the start. Thank God for rooting, controlling, customizing and ACTUALLY INTERACTIVELY OWNING YOUR OWN DEVICE and among other things, getting rid of all ads system wide. Do you even remember the first 3 years of IOS there was no cut, copy and paste? That's right, genius Jobs who always thought all the users are mental retards and only he knew the enlightening truth, didn't think it was necessary. And to this day, there still isnt a real file manager hahahahahahahaha...is hilarious. Apple is a joke from start to finish..
I did have an iPad 3 in 2012 with old CZcams icon. At that time, internet speed were so slow to stream.
I remember having a used 2014/2015 model in 2016, It was a good experience but I was wishing that I could do more with it. Now I have a new 2021 12.9 iPad Pro and I couldn’t be more happier with what we have now. 😁
Was that the mega64 podcast at 1:58? Nice taste
Absolutely. I’m an internet soldier for life.
But the iPas was much more than a feminine hygiene product...
Its just like when I use my 2nd generation iPod touch from 2008. Its latest iOS is 4.2.1. and its pretty much a no go for internet, but I still use it for listening to downloaded music. I actually remember buying this 2nd gen iPod touch new from Walmart in early 2009.
My first iPad was an iPad 2 two that came with iOS 4.1.2. At first I used it mostly to play games and experiment with some piano Apps and it was such a great experience. Sadly, my laptop kinda died around that time, with it randomly turning off and not wanting to turn on again, so I decided to use my iPad instead so I bought the iWork and iLife Apps. I still used it to play some games like the amazing iOS Dead Space game that is sadly dead now, or the amazing iOS Mass Effect game that is sadly dead too. I mostly used the iLife Apps for school work, and sometimes I used iMovie for some school projects and GarageBand for some hobby music stuff. I remember my iPad was more powerful than the latest iPhone that was released, which was a great thing to me.
Almost half a year later a Jailbreak was released for my iPad and I immediately installed it and I loved lots of teaks, like Activator, which allowed me to turn the volume buttons into music control buttons, or a tweak that allowed me to have a ControlCenter-like window but I can't remember its name. Also, there was a tweak that allowed me to connect my PS3 controller to my iPad and map the buttons and sticks to touch inputs. There were a lot of possibilities with Jailbreak and I continued using it for years. I remember that I had my iPad on iOS 5.0.3 or something like that and Apple released the iPhoto App requiring iOS 5.1, so I opened iFile, searched for an iOS *.plist file and changed my iOS version to iOS 5.1 and magically I could start using the iPhoto App without needing to update my iPad and lose my Jailbreak. When Apple introduced the MFi controllers a few years later, someone created Controllers For All, a tweak that allowed many popular controllers, like the PS3 controller or some iPega controllers, to be detected as MFi controllers. Also, I fondly remember a tweak called Quasar that allowed me to open as many Apps as I wanted as windows. I remember having an iPad App in portrait mode while my iPad was in landscape mode, with Instagram, an iPhone App, on it's side and CZcams on the corner, just like Picture-in-Picture.
Back to the stock features, I got a 30-pin to VGA adapter so I could connect my iPad to my TV and my school projector and use it with Apps like Keynote, which allowed me to have presentation notes on the iPad while showing only the slides to everyone else, basically having a different video on the iPad itself and on the output video, or the amazing Asphalt 6 game that used that same feature to send a full panoramic 720p picture to the TV, instead of the native 1024×768, while only showing the controls on the iPad itself. The camera itself could take 960×720 pictures, but there was a catch, because when you were taking pictures it was actually cropping it from a full 1280×720 sensor. When I switched to video capture mode it "added" more image to the sides, allowing me to capture native 720p videos, and that was really great when paired with iMovie.
Of course only 4 to 5 months after buying my iPad I got a Kensington keyboard folio cover for my iPad, and it was such a great thing to have because it allowed me to write documents without an on-screen keyboard covering a good portion of the screen, and I was honestly surprised when I discovered the iPad had support for many common keyboard shortcuts like ⌘C, ⌘X and ⌘V. Some years later I got an Airbender case, with was fully plastic and aluminum, and the keyboard was one of the best keyboards I've ever used on an iPad.
A couple years after I got the iPad my brother found a 30-pin to USB adapter for the camera kit, but with the amazing power of Jailbreak I could use it with iFile to connect pendrives with 1 GB or less storage. I tried with 4 GB or 8 GB, the max I could find atm, and they just didn't work. With all those possibilities, my iPad truly replaced my laptop as a high schooler. Also, I remember when Adobe released their first Photoshop App, which was truly amazing. It had lots of features that I still don't see on many current photo editing Apps.
That iPad was my main computer from April 2011 to August 2016. That's 5+ years using an iPad as my main computer, and something I'm pretty sure almost no one has ever done, but I did it and I enjoyed it. I specially enjoyed carrying such a lightweight device, even with the case, and being able to do everything I needed to and even more, and also carrying a portable gaming device with me.
Once I started the uni I had to use some specific software, like AutoCAD, which wasn't available on iOS, thus forcing me to get a laptop. It was august 2016 and I wanted a Macbook because iCloud was already a thing and I was already used to the ⌘ key, but I didn't have enough money to get a recent Macbook, so I bought a 13" 2012 MBP, the last MBP with a DVD drive and upgradeable RAM. After that, I didn't use my iPad as often because I needed to carry my MBP most of the time anyway, but after a year I upgraded the RAM to 16 GB and after another year I replaced the DVD drive with a SSD drive. Of course I still used my iPad to play some iPad games and watch some Netflix and CZcams, but that's about it.
A year after I bought that MBP, the WiFi antenna of my iPad broke because the corner where that antenna was started to lift, eventually breaking it. I ordered a new antenna and did my best to open that device for the first time. Sadly… I broke the glass, so I ordered a new glass and replaced it too. The antenna was supposed to be glued to the glass, but I didn't do that because it would break again. My iPad started working again! Then stupid me gave it to my then-girlfriend for her birthday only to break up merely 3 months later in august 2017.
Moving on to october 2018 I really wanted to have an iPad again, specially because it was so convenient to have one and it also allows me to download content from Netflix (like my iPhone), but with a more comfortable screen size (like my Mac), so I bought a used 2017 "iPad", and I've been using it ever since. Coming from the A5-powered iPad 2 to the A9-powered 2017 iPad was sigh a huge difference, with native multitasking and many features my iPad 2 never got when it was stuck on iOS 9.3.5. I use this iPad more often than my previous iPad because it's way more powerful than the latter, and I don't really need to carry my MBP anywhere with me anymore. It's such a great device for traveling, which I do a lot. I mean, I still carry my MBP with me just in case, but I often leave it in a suitcase and carry my iPad in a small backpack with me. Such a great device that literally changed my life.