It appeared those clunky e-readers with their dim monochrome screens and keypads were doomed. Suddenly, with an iPad - or a tablet from competing manufacturers, like the Samsung Galaxy Tab, featuring Google's Android operating system - you only needed one device. Not only that, the iPad's high-resolution touchscreen, as big as an old-fashioned paperback, was bright and sharp enough to make reading books and magazines on it a pleasure. The iPad enabled users to surf the Web, watch videos, listen to music and run a dizzying array of apps that could do almost anything a bigger PC could do. And then, in 2010, Apple introduced the iPad, a revolutionary tablet computer that came with the same easy-to-use operating system as the popular iPhone. In 2009, Amazon introduced a Kindle reader for the iPhone. If you were a Renaissance person who yearned to do all of those things at once, well, you had to shell out the bucks to buy at least two different devices.īut these days, blessedly, all those distinctions are blurring. On the other hand, if downloading and reading e-books was your thing, you'd have to purchase a handheld e-reader, like the Sony Reader, introduced in 2006, or the Amazon Kindle, introduced in 2007. If you wanted to send e-mails, surf the Web or watch videos from anywhere, you needed a laptop computer or a smartphone. It's strange to think that there was a time, back in the dark ages of the late 2000s, when personal electronics consumers' choices were really primitive.
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