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by giobox 3319 days ago
The first generation iPad launched close to two years before your example in 2010 at $499.

I agree with the previous remarks - the tablet industry was pretty well established 5 years ago and hardly cutting edge tech - 10 years ago is definitely a better comparison at this point, with the crappy tablet devices Microsoft were pushing at much higher price points then.