Good riddance to the iPad Home button – now Apple’s tablet finally fulfils its original vision

Good riddance to the iPad Home button – now Apple’s tablet finally fulfils its original vision

Stuff Singapore·2024-05-09 12:00

The iPad Home button is dead. At the 7 May ‘Let Loose’ event, Apple quietly hurled the 9th-gen iPad into a recycling bin, and replaced it with what it called the ‘loveable, drawable, magical’ 10th-gen. Which is now just called iPad.

That reminded me of the original iPad. That one was also ‘lovable’. And I still have mine, in an office drawer. (So, um, ‘draw[er]able’? Just go with me here.) And it definitely felt ‘magical’, once it finally arrived in my hands. Which at the time required it to go on an exciting road trip with a courier after an Icelandic volcano inconveniently erupted.

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