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What this device does is extraordinary,” Steve Jobs intoned to a packed house at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center. The date was Jan. 27, 2010 and Jobs, dressed in his standard attire of faded jeans and a black turtleneck, settled into a Le Corbusier chair with what he called the “third category device”—a 9.7-inch, backlit touch tablet that would create a market between the too-small smartphone and the too-bulky laptop. “Using this thing,” Jobs said, “is remarkable.”
The “thing” was, of course, the iPad.
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