The iPad was mocked at launch, has been threatened by rivals throughout, and yet still remains the best-selling tablet ever made, 16 years after it first shipped to customers on April 3, 2010.
It’s easy to name alternatives to the iPad, you could be here all day listing myriad Android tablets. But it’s impossible to name even one true iPad competitor.
For after all of these years since it launched, and after all of the rival devices that have launched after that moment, there isn’t any one tablet that sells enough on its own to compete with the iPad. Its competition is the mass of cheaper rivals, which is not to be ignored, yet none of them have come close to the success of the iPad.
The closest is surely the Microsoft Surface, but if that’s the best and the best-known rival, it doesn’t appear to be doing all that well.
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